895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

One of the things that’s so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.

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.

Take it easy man, but take it.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle.

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.

You’re immortal as long as you live.

If you play the cultural game, it’s like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.