895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

It’s getting funnier because everybody’s categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don’t make sense.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn’t even your trip. They don’t even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, ‘When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.’

What we need to change is our minds, that’s the part that’s doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

That’s what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you’re dealing with.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas.

I’m proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.