Terence Quotes

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

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

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

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.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

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

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

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

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

History is the siren song of the soul.

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 a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

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

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

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

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

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

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

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?

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

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.