More Quotes by Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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.
