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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
