Terence McKenna Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Language betrays,
  in order to mean.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Order, Language

• 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

• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

  Terence McKenna

  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

• It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Causes, Language

• The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Nature, Fall

• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Culture, Language

• We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Psychedelic, Evolution

• Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Matter, Language

• Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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

• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Mind, Looks

• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Rebel, Tasks

• It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

  Terence McKenna

  Organization, Language, Surface

• The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

  Terence McKenna

  Eyebrows, Space, Light

• We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

  Terence McKenna

  Language, Faster, Evolve

• It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Development, Way, Language

• This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

  Terence McKenna

  Unique, Civilization, Language

• The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Space, Understanding

• The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

  Terence McKenna

  Culture, Path, Language

• And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Childhood, Passing Away

• What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Long, Singing

• At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Animal, Psychics

• Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

  Terence McKenna

  Spring, Language

• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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