Terence McKenna
Author profile
born
in Paonia, Colorado, The United States
November 16, 1946
died
April 03, 2000
gender
male
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
— published 1992 — 13 editions |
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The Archaic Revival
by Terence McKenna, Tom Robbins , Wilfried “Sätty” Podriech — published 1992 — 2 editions |
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True Hallucinations
— published 1993 — 3 editions |
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True Hallucinations/The Archaic Revival
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Surfing on Finnegans Wake & Riding Range with Marshall McLuhan
— published 1995 |
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History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival
— published 1993 |
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Plan, Plant, Planet
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Conversations at the Age of Magic
— published 2003 |
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Under the Teaching Tree
— published 1985 |
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Global Perspectives and Psychedelic Poetics
— published 1994 |
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“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna
― Terence McKenna
“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
― Terence McKenna
― Terence McKenna
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
― Terence McKenna
― Terence McKenna


























