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
Terence McKenna quotes about
You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.