Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKennawas an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 November 1946
CityPaonia, CO
CountryUnited States of America
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
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'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.