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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
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 problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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.
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.