Terence McKenna Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

• I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

  Terence McKenna

  Book, Character, Thinking

• The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, World, Body

• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Imagination, Library

  "Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1992.

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Men, Imagination

• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Self, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Ideas, Imagination

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

• We live in condensations of our imagination

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Condensation

• ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Mean, Voice

• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Reality, Play

• The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Information, Dimensions

• Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Imagination, Cyberspace

• To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Imagination, Mind

• The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind

  Terence McKenna

  Communication, Ideas, Imagination

• If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Names, Imagination

• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Animal, Past

• What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Imagination, Expansion

• What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Imagination, Three

• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

• Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Enzymes, Plant

• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

• The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Imagination, Way

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