C.M. McKenna Quotes
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.
