Terence McKenna Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Garden, Heaven

• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Art, Children

• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

  Terence McKenna

  Taken, Marijuana, Psychosis

• The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

  Terence McKenna

  Differences, People, Drug

• I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

  Terence McKenna

  Book, Drug, Burning

• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Drug, Facts

• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, War, Mean

• The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

  Terence McKenna

  Sex, Drug, Secret

• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Addiction, Drug

• The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Madness

• The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Surrender

• Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Thinking, Keys

• One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

  Terence McKenna

  Next Day, Drug, Way

• I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug

• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

• What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Drug

• 'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Drug, Psychedelic

• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Computer

• The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Viewpoints, Becoming

• Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Evolution

• I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, People, Drug

• The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Helping, Shamanism

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