Quotes from Terence McKenna

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

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

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

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.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

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

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.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

Time will perfect matter.