Quotes from Terence McKenna

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

History is the siren song of the soul.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

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.

We live in condensations of our imagination

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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.

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

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

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.

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.

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

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.