“I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.” ThinkingWorldWantGivingShouldKindBookCharacterLife IsLiteratureImaginationImagineMetaphorWork OutPhysicsReleaseDimensionsMapsUnimaginable Author:Terence McKenna
“The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.” WorldHumansMadeMomentsBodyImaginationReleaseMonkeysHuman Imagination Author:Terence McKenna
“We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” WorldWantMindPlayHandsJobsTurnsGamesHalfPlayerDyingDegreesBonesEngineersTrashConsumingUnimportantMoronMind BlowingBlowing ItUnimportant Things Author:Terence McKenna
“We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.” WorldWalksPerceptionFinishedMuseumsPatron Author:Terence McKenna
“It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.” WorldLawLevelsProductsDeeperFractals Author:Terence McKenna
“I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.” ThinkingWorldShouldGrowingSpeciesHopefulPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna
“Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.” WorldLightTurnsCultureImaginationKnownSunGonePathEmpowermentToolsClaimsProgrammes Author:Terence McKenna
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.” WorldDreamImpossibleCommitmentObstaclesLiftsGrindMind BlowingNature LoveDmtCourage To LoveImpossible DreamLift You UpBlowing It Author:Terence McKenna
“The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.” WorldLittlesMadeMatterLightLanguageSpaceSizeWaveSpeedTinyDemonEyebrowsSpeed Of LightHurlingCalisthenics Author:Terence McKenna
“You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.” WorldMindLooksKindArtTwoMomentsAsksMysteryEternityThat MomentSuspended Author:Terence McKenna
“DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsHumansHuman BeingsExistenceMethodCommunicateActiveInvisibleDimensionsCrossingsDmt Author:Terence McKenna
“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.” WorldTinyPerceiveFractions Author:Terence McKenna
“What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.” WorldMindHumansLostConnectionsOpeningHuman MindContinentsPsychedelicDoorwaysPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas” WorldIdeasAbsenceOur WorldGood IdeasMind BlowingDmt Author:Terence McKenna
“What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.” WorldMindHumansKindLittlesRealTogetherMovingCommunityStageIntuitionScreensInvisibleSymbolsCodeAspirationVisibleHuman Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.” IfsMenWorldFeelingsHappensSpiritIndividualPoorClassRichPlanetsTypeNeededIntellectualMen And WomenBoundariesNew WorldRich And PoorOrientationPoor ManDissolution Author:Terence McKenna
