Home / Quotes / Quote by Terence McKenna

Quote by Terence McKenna

“Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.”

Quote by Terence McKenna

Author

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna was a renowned philosopher known for his profound insights into consciousness, botany, and human potential. His ideas were deeply influenced by his family's genetic research and studies on the evolution of human consciousness. more

You May Also Like

“There is no knowledge without risk taking.”

Risk Risk-taking

Author:Terence McKenna

“We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.”

May Consciousness Monkeys

Author:Terence McKenna

“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.”

Matter Whole Facts Body Happens Objects Materials Shadow Areas Structure Casts Cease Organized Affected Phenomenon Cycling Sustaining Hyper Degrading Entropy Metabolism

Author:Terence McKenna

“I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.”

Feels Mean Long Lost Emotion Approach Long Time Take Me Dread Sail Ripped Abusers

Author:Terence McKenna

“The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.”

Ifs Needs Reason Suffering Water Simple Technique Unnecessary Emphasis Shamanism Deep Water Unnecessary Suffering

Author:Terence McKenna

“Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.”

Sometimes Joy Emotion Edges Terror Complexity Ecstasy

Author:Terence McKenna

“Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.”

Want Might Spiritual Issues Lifts Fuel Gas Vehicle Quests Brake

Author:Terence McKenna

“We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.”

World Hard Fall Modern Cold Birth Existentialism Empires Torn Womb Thrust Roman Empire Modern Science Canals

Author:Terence McKenna

“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.”

Natural Simple Acting Stage

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.”

Heart Together Culture Force Hero Direct Bigger Galaxy Translations Shamanism

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival