Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it. Terence McKenna usedway The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. Terence McKenna predicamentsmiraclelong The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place. Terence McKenna historicalboundariescivilization If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before. Terence McKenna coderealityway Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity. Terence McKenna henchmenchristianityworld My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Terence McKenna enlightenmentegoideas A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about. Terence McKenna treasureand-lovebelieve The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination. Terence McKenna exercisemenlying I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously. Terence McKenna issuesresponsibilitythinking The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future. Terence McKenna millenniumapocalypsemoving In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. Terence McKenna hallucinogensdatasticks Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully. Terence McKenna dataanimalpeople I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. Terence McKenna tackypeoplethinking Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view. Terence McKenna transitionspaceviews This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about. Terence McKenna languageuniquecivilization The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Terence McKenna unconsciousmademen I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain. Terence McKenna drugyearsthinking I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism. Terence McKenna hallucinogensshamanismbelieve Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion. Terence McKenna intelligentsafelife-is I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products? Terence McKenna tvsmessageswatches
