What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. Terence McKenna description psychedelic states I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky. Terence McKenna tacky issues believe Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer. Terence McKenna issues answers people Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most. Terence McKenna deeper mathematics doe Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew. Terence McKenna way-forward simplicity people Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug. Terence McKenna nevertheless drug television The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. Terence McKenna dmt nature life The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us. Terence McKenna opaque predicaments real If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code. Terence McKenna language made world Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us. Terence McKenna language spring It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. Terence McKenna strategy advantage people Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. Terence McKenna grids form literature I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present. Terence McKenna landscape circles thinking The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time. Terence McKenna three space mind Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain. Terence McKenna pain culture It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide. Terence McKenna twenties spiritual people It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening. Terence McKenna matter people fall The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church. Terence McKenna drug secret sex We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it. Terence McKenna empires world fall My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past. Terence McKenna real giving past
