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
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.