The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

— Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna Quotes

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

— Terence McKenna
Real

Why does mathematics describe nature? That’s a deeper question than most.

— Terence McKenna

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

— Terence McKenna

Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

— Terence McKenna

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

— Terence McKenna

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

— Terence McKenna

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it’s an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

— Terence McKenna

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

— Terence McKenna

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: ‘The galaxy lies waiting.’

— Terence McKenna

The “just say no” campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

— Terence McKenna

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It’s the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

— Terence McKenna
Smart

We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern...

— Terence McKenna

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

— Terence McKenna

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

— Terence McKenna

You’re immortal as long as you live.

— Terence McKenna

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

— Terence McKenna

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

— Terence McKenna

What is needed, is an awakening.

— Terence McKenna

Worrying is betting against yourself.

— Terence McKenna

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle.

— Terence McKenna
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