More Quotes by Terence McKenna
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
