Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position. Terence McKenna ayahuasca mushrooms drug Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable. Terence McKenna dark feelings mean There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. Terence McKenna ontology mind trying The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension. Terence McKenna intellectual spiritual people In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum. Terence McKenna century way world I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension. Terence McKenna psychics dimensions believe It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough. Terence McKenna mushrooms levels able We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. Terence McKenna dropping psychedelic dropping-out The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing. Terence McKenna drawing sea people Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind. Terence McKenna psychics drug museums Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works. Terence McKenna phenomenology shapes tools The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul' Terence McKenna horizon soul men Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone. Terence McKenna believe reality thinking Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna psychedelic standing-out ideas If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance. Terence McKenna conservation novelty facts It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers. Terence McKenna entity masters answers Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics. Terence McKenna ascending ideas school The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will. Terence McKenna dimensions able people All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere. Terence McKenna information The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another. Terence McKenna dmt strategy literature
