The only real experience that counts, is your own. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed. Terence McKenna gamespeopleyears If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization. Terence McKenna egoselfcivilization I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy. Terence McKenna working-very-hardbelievereality The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine. Terence McKenna feminineegoworld We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components. Terence McKenna coral-reefsmonkeyskind The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined. Terence McKenna domainbiggermind The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed. Terence McKenna bonfirebiggerdarkness A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost. Terence McKenna secretlongmean There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles. Terence McKenna perceptionplaymoving We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. Terence McKenna givingbelieveideas We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery. Terence McKenna miraclealivelooks I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright. Terence McKenna mindjobsthinking What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds. Terence McKenna dirtmindneeds Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation. Terence McKenna dmtmind-blowingdrug Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. Terence McKenna obligationkind To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything. Terence McKenna enterpriseunderstandingthinking Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be? Terence McKenna expansiondoethinking It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically. Terence McKenna communicateseemscivilization Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. Terence McKenna psychedelicegoabsence There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about. Terence McKenna angelhistoricalstruggle
