Terence McKenna Quotes

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

Art helped give me confidence.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.