Terence McKenna Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

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.

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

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That’s how he can do his magic.