If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle Terence McKenna riddle caught mystery My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises Terence McKenna agree-upon voice mouths The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art. Terence McKenna works-of-art kind art It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other. Terence McKenna causes intelligent language The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. Terence McKenna drawing night long Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind. Terence McKenna psychedelic real mind The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda. Terence McKenna tunnels light reality You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told. Terence McKenna blowing-it mind-blowing secret How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self? Terence McKenna self knows We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future. Terence McKenna microcosm becoming perfect We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that. Terence McKenna cycling shadow body The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. Terence McKenna pathways golden imagination What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief. Terence McKenna faith mean believe Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension. Terence McKenna transition dimensions preparation You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created. Terence McKenna mind two art The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary. Terence McKenna deep-water simple suffering So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship. Terence McKenna position-of-power citizens mean Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. Terence McKenna future gun civilization The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. Terence McKenna mystery self two Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. Terence McKenna dmt dream commitment
