895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That’s not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

There's light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don't go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth .

If the words life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego