In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. Terence McKenna visionariesmind-blowingintelligent Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. Terence McKenna psychedelicunderstandingshould I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind. Terence McKenna psychedelicmindpeople If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity. Terence McKenna agendaspoliticalusual We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual. Terence McKenna levelswould-bethinking We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place. Terence McKenna dmtmind-blowinglong The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us. Terence McKenna naturelifefall It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us. Terence McKenna spiritualinspirationallife The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. Terence McKenna ridiculousanimallife It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it. Terence McKenna oceaneasy The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. Terence McKenna bodyimaginationworld Culture is your operating system. Terence McKenna operating-systemsprogrammingculture There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. Terence McKenna compareillusionage Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building. Terence McKenna buildingexcellentkind These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses. Terence McKenna pomposityinspired Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Terence McKenna small-mindsconsistencymind The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity. Terence McKenna doctorscreativityartist I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'. Terence McKenna stufftwopeople We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems. Terence McKenna anarchyrealizingclaims Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe. Terence McKenna religiousfeelingslife
