ENLIGHTMENT: Top 9 Quotes by Terence Mckenna

#1

“If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happines’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”

#2

“I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature”

#3

“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”

#4

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”

#5

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.”

#6

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

#7

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”

#8

“If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”

#9

“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”