There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways. Terence McKenna imagination self beautiful So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream. Terence McKenna community dream looks The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear! Terence McKenna responsibility mean commitment I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells. Terence McKenna anxiety people thinking Nature is actually the goal at the end of history. Terence McKenna ends goal You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. Terence McKenna mind-blowing community understanding Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet Terence McKenna nature inspirational life The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being. Terence McKenna primaries mind reality The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful. Terence McKenna style beautiful moving Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order. Terence McKenna kind order thinking People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. Terence McKenna neurosis existential people The engineers of the future will be poets. Terence McKenna poet inspiring inspirational And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization. Terence McKenna childhood passing-away civilization Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything. Terence McKenna psychics matter mind There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this. Terence McKenna privileged planets order What you call man is time. Terence McKenna men Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique. Terence McKenna unique artist two Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet. Terence McKenna space self mind To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances. Terence McKenna balls eye giving It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth. Terence McKenna levels law world
