Terence McKenna Quotes

Terence McKenna — American Writer born on November 16, 1946, died on April 03, 2000

Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, and author who spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture"... (wikipedia)

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.