895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

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.