The truth for sure, Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language. Terence McKenna languagematterworld Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us. Terence McKenna inanimate-objectspoliticalloyalty It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you. Terence McKenna hollywoodculturepeople Only psychos and shamans create their own reality Terence McKenna psychoreality The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization. Terence McKenna smartbelievemoving What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe. Terence McKenna eyeyearsmoving LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us. Terence McKenna gardenheavenlying When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity. Terence McKenna starslonelinessheart The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. Terence McKenna collective-effortdreamlife We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. Terence McKenna oceanmoonheart There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules Terence McKenna taskssimplespiritual The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. Terence McKenna oceanimaginationideas We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys. Terence McKenna monkeysconsciousnessmay We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness. Terence McKenna takenchristianmen I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. Terence McKenna marathonpreparationthinking History is a series of approximations of the final singularity. Terence McKenna singularityseriesfinals The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself. Terence McKenna obligationcarebelief Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing. Terence McKenna powerfulreallying All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later. Terence McKenna anxietyfeelingsanimal Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole. Terence McKenna blackeventssympathy
