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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

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

Terence McKenna
Trying, Eyelids, Behinds

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Terence McKenna
Culture, Path, Language

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Terence McKenna
Our World, World, Assumption

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

Terence McKenna
Process, Objects

For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

Terence McKenna
Self, Talking, Sea

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Terence McKenna
Reality, Culture, Language

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

Terence McKenna
Reality, World, Fields

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

Terence McKenna
Artist, Journey, Self

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

Terence McKenna
Brain, Internet, Domain

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

Terence McKenna
Museums, Perception, World

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, People, Anxiety

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Terence McKenna
Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing
Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Terence McKenna
Buddhist, Keys, Attention

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.

Terence McKenna
Reality, Tunnels, Light

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

Terence McKenna
Joy, Emotion, Sometimes

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Terence McKenna
Memories, Real, Feel Good

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Terence McKenna
Our World, Ideas, Dmt

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Terence McKenna
Intelligent, Causes, Language

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

Terence McKenna
Destiny, Thinking, Body
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

You're immortal as long as you live.

Terence McKenna
Long, Immortal

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

Terence McKenna
Perfect, Becoming, Microcosm
"Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Terence McKenna
Enlightenment, Culture, Barriers

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Terence McKenna
Ignorance, Historical, Progress
"Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

Terence McKenna
Kind, Obligation
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Terence McKenna
Children, Culture, World

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