Terence McKenna Quotes

Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture". ...more

Birth: November 16, 1946 - Death: April 03, 2000

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

Topic(s): Knows , Inspirational , Self

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.

Topic(s): World , Inspirational , Dream

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Topic(s): Ifs , Believe , Opposites

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Topic(s): World , Ideas , Consciousness

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.

Topic(s): World , Perceive , Tiny

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Topic(s): Ifs , Knows , Trying

I think that’s the job of each of us – to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

Topic(s): Thinking , Mind , Jobs

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.

Topic(s): World , Mind , Kind

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

Topic(s): Kind , Should , Seems

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

Topic(s): World , Trying , Children

Art’s task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Art , Life

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