The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns. Terence McKenna addiction drug opposites Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted. Terence McKenna issues spiritual might I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking. Terence McKenna toxic life thinking Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. Terence McKenna shamanism tradition stones The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. Terence McKenna blowing-it luxury mind-blowing Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. Terence McKenna bondage greater steps Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. Terence McKenna cyberspace imagination ideas Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness Terence McKenna dmt mind-blowing our-world To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. Terence McKenna rebel tasks two What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity. Terence McKenna enzymes individual language For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves. Terence McKenna baggage issues kind The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable. Terence McKenna furniture momentum mind Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together. Terence McKenna hero together heart Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media. Terence McKenna our-society media needs We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. Terence McKenna citizens home heart You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort. Terence McKenna objects process What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. Terence McKenna effort balance way The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system. Terence McKenna events cutting mind I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere. Terence McKenna hallucinations fascinated mean Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process. Terence McKenna psychedelic despair self
