C.M. McKenna Quotes

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a time!

Money is one of the rewards you get for adding value to the lives of others.

Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

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.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Time will perfect matter.

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

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Language betrays, in order to mean.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

Culture is your operating system.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.