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The engineers of the future will be poets.
— Terence McKenna
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
— Terence McKenna
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
— Terence McKenna
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
— Terence McKenna
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
— Terence McKenna
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
— Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
— Terence McKenna
The truth for sure,
when it arrives,
will make you smile.
If it doesn't,
you should seek
a deeper truth. — Terence McKenna
when it arrives,
will make you smile.
If it doesn't,
you should seek
a deeper truth. — Terence McKenna
[Lydia tut-tutted on seeing the grocer's apostrophe]
— Christina McKenna
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
— Terence McKenna
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
— Terence McKenna
McKenna was her counterpart, her compass, her sanctuary.
— Lisa Kleypas
The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
— Richard McKenna
You're immortal as long as you live.
— Terence McKenna
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
— Terence McKenna
All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.
— Terence McKenna
Time will perfect matter.
— Terence McKenna
What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
— Terence McKenna
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
— Terence McKenna
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
— Terence McKenna
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
— Terence McKenna
[ ... ] thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
— Terence McKenna
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
— Terence McKenna
Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin ...
She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear. — Shannon McKenna
She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear. — Shannon McKenna
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
— Terence McKenna
It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.
— Terence McKenna
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
— Terence McKenna
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
— Terence McKenna
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
— Terence McKenna
The felt presence of immediate experience
this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. — Terence McKenna
this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. — Terence McKenna
Do the hard thing
— Shannon McKenna
Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
— Terence McKenna
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
— Terence McKenna
We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.
— Terence McKenna
Hell hath no fury like a woman deprived of her toiletries.
— Shannon McKenna
It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.
— Regis McKenna
Nobody's fucked me that good in ages."
I laughed. "I didn't even get you off."
"You will. Unless you broke your hip or something. — Cara McKenna
I laughed. "I didn't even get you off."
"You will. Unless you broke your hip or something. — Cara McKenna
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
— Terence McKenna
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
— Terence McKenna
I don't see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.
— Jed McKenna
It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.
— Megan McKenna
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
— Terence McKenna
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
— Terence McKenna
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
— Terence McKenna
Laurel had gotten plenty of head in her time, but never like this. Flynn fucked her with his mouth ...
— Cara McKenna
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
— Terence McKenna
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
— Terence McKenna
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.
— Terence McKenna
Language betrays,
in order to mean. — Terence McKenna
in order to mean. — Terence McKenna
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
— Terence McKenna
How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.
— Regis McKenna
Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.
— Jed McKenna
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
— Terence McKenna
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
— Terence McKenna
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
— Terence McKenna
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,
— Terence McKenna
One day McKenna got hot enough
— Richard Paul Evans
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
— Terence McKenna
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
— Terence McKenna
History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
— Terence McKenna
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
— Terence McKenna
The truth is that there is no shortcut, no silver bullet, and no special sauce to building a winning campaign in the 21st century.
— Elizabeth McKenna
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
— 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
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
— Terence McKenna
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
— Dennis McKenna
Branding is overrated.
— Regis McKenna
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
— Terence McKenna
Caring was all about surrender, in the end. The opposite of control. The difference between strangling someone and embracing them.
— Cara McKenna
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
— Terence McKenna
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
— Megan McKenna
What you call man is time.
— Terence McKenna
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
— Terence McKenna
Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
— Terence McKenna
My flatmate's away for the weekend. If you fancied meeting against every wall in the place.
— Cara McKenna
Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
— Megan McKenna
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
— Terence McKenna
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
— Terence McKenna
Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.
— Shannon McKenna
History is rooted in the future
— Terence McKenna
Fuckin' my man in my bed," he said over Gabriel's shoulder. "You got some goddamn nerve, girl.
— Cara McKenna
I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis
— Terence McKenna
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
— Terence McKenna
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
— Terence McKenna
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
He watched her screen, her spell-checker halting at such spurious entries as "fuckwitism" and "Caliguliberal".
— Cara McKenna
Silence, please? I'm trying to watch this documentary." Laurel nodded at The Bachelor. "I believe one of the females is about to present to the alpha.
— Cara McKenna
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening
— Terence McKenna
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
— Terence McKenna
I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
— Terence McKenna
No one knows enough to worry.
— Terence McKenna