We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Terence Mckenna

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Terence Mckenna

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet

Terence Mckenna

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening.

Terence Mckenna

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer.

Terence Mckenna

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

Terence Mckenna

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Terence Mckenna

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

Terence Mckenna

Worrying is betting against yourself.

Terence Mckenna

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

Terence Mckenna

How do we fight back? By creating art.

Terence Mckenna

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

Terence Mckenna