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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Interaction, Humans

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Political, Acting

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

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

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 you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

Terence McKenna
Dog, Writing, Technology

The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Impact, Frustrating

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Reality, Thinking

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Years, Mind

Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Organization, Levels

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