I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish. Terence McKenna mind-blowing magic real What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. Terence McKenna mind-blowing civilization people I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom. Terence McKenna character book thinking DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about. Terence McKenna dmt years thinking 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. Terence McKenna fractions tiny world Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable. Terence McKenna mind-blowing ego culture The surface of things is not where attention should rest. Terence McKenna attention inspirational life What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us. Terence McKenna feelings class men The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak. Terence McKenna differences drug people Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. Terence McKenna expansion plot culture The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs. Terence McKenna computer drug Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. Terence McKenna ninety taste intellectual There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves. Terence McKenna enlightened needs My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. Terence McKenna mind-blowing opposites believe How do we fight back? By creating art. Terence McKenna inspirational life art Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. Terence McKenna proof knows talking Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary. Terence McKenna feel-good real memories The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human Terence McKenna astronaut psychedelic facts You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. Terence McKenna ego two interesting Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. Terence McKenna destiny body thinking
