Quote

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

Terence McKenna

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Terence Kemp McKenna
Sensitive
Impact
Western
Unique
History
Mind

More quotes by Terence McKenna

Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
Terence McKenna
Image
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
Terence McKenna
Image
You're immortal as long as you live.
Terence McKenna
Image
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
Terence McKenna
Image
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
Terence McKenna
Image
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
Terence McKenna
Image
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
Terence McKenna
Image
Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
Terence McKenna
Image
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
Terence McKenna
Image
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
Terence McKenna
Image
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Terence McKenna
Image
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
Terence McKenna
Image
To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.
Terence McKenna
Image
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
Terence McKenna
Image
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
Terence McKenna
Image
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
Terence McKenna
Image
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
Terence McKenna
Image
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
Terence McKenna
Image
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
Terence McKenna
Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
Terence McKenna