What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls. Terence McKenna dmt perspective soul Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria. Terence McKenna umbria maids looks I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own. Terence McKenna scorn my-own ideas I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. Terence McKenna diversity culture thinking DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic. Terence McKenna dmt magic add By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. Terence McKenna expectations fundamentals people I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace. Terence McKenna hopeful world thinking The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news. Terence McKenna mind-blowing emotional spiritual What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news! Terence McKenna three space imagination If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded. Terence McKenna games play cards Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. Terence McKenna psychedelic may thinking Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. Terence McKenna inspirational life reality I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine. Terence McKenna computer tools thinking Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna involvement psychedelic imagination A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this Terence McKenna information-is-power cracks hands Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after. Terence McKenna nuts mean facts This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time. Terence McKenna deep-water breathing keys The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off. Terence McKenna quality community opportunity The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review. Terence McKenna real war mean You will ride the Tao Terence McKenna tao able light
