Terence Mckenna

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Culture is your operating system.

You're immortal as long as you live.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

The truth for sure, _x000D_ when it arrives, _x000D_ will make you smile. _x000D_ If it doesn't, _x000D_ you should seek _x000D_ a deeper truth.

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.