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
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.