Quotes from Terence McKenna

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

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

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.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

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

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

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

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

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.

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

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas