Every click of the cosmic clock Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants Terence McKenna bloodysacrificeants In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. Terence McKenna sexualitypsychedelicpeople The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. Terence McKenna psychedelicspeechthinking Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. Terence McKenna drugmindtelevision One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. Terence McKenna librarypsychedelicpeople What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things. Terence McKenna psychedelicshouldattitude People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century. Terence McKenna spainstoriespeople I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place. Terence McKenna worldideasthinking Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent. Terence McKenna becomingtogetherculture I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love. Terence McKenna complicatedpeoplethinking National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented. Terence McKenna paidgovernment The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party? Terence McKenna integritymeanart 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. Terence McKenna gameschildrenpeople We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms. Terence McKenna attentionlooksworld If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.' Terence McKenna qualitybodythinking I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this! Terence McKenna dopewheelsmen These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!' Terence McKenna tumblinglightsound History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. Terence McKenna darknessmenyears I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster. Terence McKenna extinctiongovernmentthinking And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience. Terence McKenna fireattitudephilosophy
