Terence McKenna Quotes

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

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.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

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.

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The Mystery is in the Body and the way the Body Works itself into Nature.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.