Terence McKenna Philosophical Quotes — Page 34

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.”

Thinking Views Ego

♥ 3

Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.”

People Able Dimensions

♥ 3

Philosophical

“Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.”

Technology Humans Interaction

♥ 3

Philosophical

“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.”

Writing Technology Dog

♥ 3

Philosophical

“I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.”

People Believe Forever

♥ 3

Philosophical

“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.”

Thinking Tools Computer

♥ 3

Philosophical

“What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.”

Believe Imagination Expansion

♥ 3

Philosophical

“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.”

Years Children Loyalty

♥ 3

Philosophical

“You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.”

World May Missing

♥ 3

Philosophical

“This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.”

Should Psychedelic Threshold

♥ 3

Philosophical

“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.”

Thinking Reality Technology

♥ 3

Philosophical

“Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.”

Twenties Minutes Lsd

♥ 3

Terence McKenna — Philosophical Quotes

Terence McKenna Quotes