895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that’s what I think it’s important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Psychedelic telepathy is you ‘see’ what I mean.

I’m not an advocate of drugs. I’m an advocate of psychedelics.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it’s done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use ‘higher dimensional’ in the mathematical sense.

We can’t sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

The “just say no” campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

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.

What I’ve observed, and I think it’s fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I’ve observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.