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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Opposites, Mind Blowing

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

Terence McKenna
Art, Two, Mind

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Terence McKenna
Religious, Issues, Rights
Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

Terence McKenna
Mean, Frank, Felt

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

Terence McKenna
Children, Games, People

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Worry, Waste

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

Terence McKenna
Life, Magic, Paganism

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Attention

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

Terence McKenna
Our World, Names, Dmt

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

Terence McKenna
Proud, Knows
"True Hallucinations". Book by Terence McKenna, 1989.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

Terence McKenna
Dream, Commitment, Dmt

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

Terence McKenna
Cutting, Years, Stupidity

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Missing

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Terence McKenna
Needs, Facts, Theory

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Terence McKenna
Life Is Like, Life Is, Cannabis

Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

Terence McKenna
Self, Space, Mind

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

Terence McKenna
People, Mind, Psychedelic

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

Terence McKenna
Our World, Dmt, Mind Blowing

The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

Terence McKenna
Facts, Psychedelic, Astronaut

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

Terence McKenna
Lying, Believe, Historical

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

Terence McKenna
Language, Faster, Evolve

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Terence McKenna
Life, Lying, Self

We live in condensations of our imagination

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Condensation

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

Terence McKenna
Teaching, Expression, Understanding

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Terence McKenna
Mean, Issues, Encounters

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