895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

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.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.

No one knows enough to worry.

The only spirit that ever gave me a name was St. Tammany whom reassured me of my future success early on and kept saying the name Matthew Edward Hall whom i predict will be a prophet or future savior of some sort. I've confirmed St. Tammany to be Tamanend, the only Native American Saint.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there