Terence McKenna World Quotations

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

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

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

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.

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.