C.M. McKenna Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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

Human history is a Gaian dream.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing

Speed has become an important element of strategy.

I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

What you call man is time.

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

History is the siren song of the soul.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it

Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.