I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. Terence McKenna imagination men lying The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety. Terence McKenna safety technology imagination ...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness. Terence McKenna oneness unity space Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious. Terence McKenna mysterious language kind The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. Terence McKenna prey manipulation When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement. Terence McKenna frank felt mean If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating. Terence McKenna transition historical taken And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade. Terence McKenna space feet opposites One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively. Terence McKenna zips appreciate opportunity We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey. Terence McKenna moon journey kings What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening. Terence McKenna dmt mushrooms might I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage. Terence McKenna usage laboratory Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed Terence McKenna ego names art The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information Terence McKenna dimensions information imagination And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. Terence McKenna primaries data felt Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly. Terence McKenna ayahuasca mean people I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them. Terence McKenna real jobs believe I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics. Terence McKenna hate views thinking Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction. Terence McKenna form people fiction What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom. Terence McKenna decadence
