Quotes from Terence McKenna

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

What you call man is time.

All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

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.

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.