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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Terence McKenna
Real, Imagination, Library
"Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1992.

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

Terence McKenna
Animal, Imagination, Mind

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Light, Imagination, Empowerment

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Pathways, Golden

We live in condensations of our imagination

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Condensation

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Enzymes, Plant

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Information, Dimensions

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Looks, Monkeys

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

Terence McKenna
Ideas, Imagination, Cyberspace

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Terence McKenna
Civilization, Names, Imagination

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

Terence McKenna
Lying, Men, Imagination

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, People, Imagination

The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind

Terence McKenna
Communication, Ideas, Imagination

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

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

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

Terence McKenna
Beautiful, Self, Imagination
Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

Terence McKenna
Space, Imagination, Three

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Imagination, Expansion

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Terence McKenna
Ocean, Ideas, Imagination
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, World, Body

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Imagination, Way

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

Terence McKenna
Powerful, Imagination, Glory

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Enzymes, Activity

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