I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future. Terence McKenna land water moving A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life. Terence McKenna teaching reality fall The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood. Terence McKenna bangs tests limits It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind. Terence McKenna understood becoming mind We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. Terence McKenna mind-blowing flames looks Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. Terence McKenna inspirational life art The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. Terence McKenna atmosphere understanding trying This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time. Terence McKenna historical believe lying Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. Terence McKenna alive earth matter No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. Terence McKenna dark night interesting The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant. Terence McKenna civilization order mean As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves. Terence McKenna individual inspirational life Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially. Terence McKenna psilocybin becoming mean Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter. Terence McKenna secret inspirational life It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. Terence McKenna political technology acting There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness. Terence McKenna technology understanding intellectual Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind. Terence McKenna internet birth mind The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words. Terence McKenna fields reality world A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness. Terence McKenna enough people thinking The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. Terence McKenna mind-blowing confusion dying
