The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. Terence McKenna self life lying In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told. Terence McKenna silence darkness mind Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening Terence McKenna mind-blowing listening thinking Cultures are virtual realities made of language. Terence McKenna language culture reality Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book. Terence McKenna occult limits book ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe. Terence McKenna voice powerful mean I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are. Terence McKenna life children art We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. Terence McKenna culture children world What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible. Terence McKenna able church attention I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea. Terence McKenna swimming communication believe Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society. Terence McKenna responsible human-beings humans Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place. Terence McKenna losing-control important views We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. Terence McKenna unspeakable strive years Astonishment is the proper response to reality. Terence McKenna astonishment response reality We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. Terence McKenna caterpillars contemplating We live in condensations of our imagination Terence McKenna condensation imagination Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. Terence McKenna psychosis marijuana taken Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. Terence McKenna dmt animal moving When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation. Terence McKenna void dimensions art Language betrays, Terence McKenna language order mean
