Terence McKenna Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding

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

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Silly, People, Mind Blowing

• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Understanding, Messages

• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

  Terence McKenna

  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

• Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

  Terence McKenna

  Smart, Understanding, What If

• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

• To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Understanding, Enterprise

• 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

• The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Atmosphere, Trying

• I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Years, Drug

• 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

• You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Mind Blowing, Understanding

• 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

• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Psychedelic, Should

• I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

• Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Political, Historical

• I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Understanding, Institutions

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