I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet. Terence McKenna eras gentleman tables Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language. Terence McKenna language matter world Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us. Terence McKenna inanimate-objects political loyalty It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you. Terence McKenna hollywood culture people Only psychos and shamans create their own reality Terence McKenna psycho reality The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization. Terence McKenna smart believe moving What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe. Terence McKenna eye years moving LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us. Terence McKenna garden heaven lying When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity. Terence McKenna stars loneliness heart The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. Terence McKenna collective-effort dream life We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. Terence McKenna ocean moon heart There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules Terence McKenna tasks simple spiritual The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. Terence McKenna ocean imagination ideas We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys. Terence McKenna monkeys consciousness may We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness. Terence McKenna taken christian men I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. Terence McKenna marathon preparation thinking History is a series of approximations of the final singularity. Terence McKenna singularity series finals The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself. Terence McKenna obligation care belief Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing. Terence McKenna powerful real lying All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later. Terence McKenna anxiety feelings animal
