Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that animals exist primarily as a means for plants to propagate their seeds.
Terence McKenna's quote provides a thought-provoking perspective on the relationship between animals and plants, implying that animals were essentially created by plants to aid in their reproduction. This view challenges traditional perceptions of life forms and encourages us to reconsider the interconnectedness of different species and their roles in the ecosystem.
In practice
During a nature discussion, I shared this quote to illustrate the fascinating interplay between species.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
The engineers of the future will be poets.
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. Itβs a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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