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“My soul had the flu.”
― Cara McKenna, Curio

“The price of truth is everything, but no one knows what everything means until they’re paying it.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“Hell hath no fury like a woman deprived of her toiletries.”
― Shannon McKenna, Standing in the Shadows

“I have a really nasty temper, and no restraint. I’ve basically got no impulse control, so I do whatever I feel like, the second I feel it. I’m also into really fucked-up sex.”
I blinked. “Oh.”
“Plus, since I got no impulse control, I tell girls I just met that I’m into really fucked-up sex.”
“You don’t say.”
“I’m a fucking mess,” he said, with the delivery of someone remarking about the weather, like, shrug, What can you do?”
― C.M. McKenna, Badger

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to slide across
the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!”
― Bill McKenna

“All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“I’m gonna fall in love with you,” Kelly said. His words hung in the darkness, bright as candle flames.”
― Cara McKenna, After Hours

“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”
― Paul McKenna, I Can Make You Thin

“Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can’t stop seeing it that way. It’s everywhere, everyone. It doesn’t make any sense. That’s not life. It can’t be. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not life.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare

“Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin...

She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear.”
― Shannon McKenna, Out Of Control

“all belief systems are just the stories we create in order to deal with the void. Ego abhors a vacuum, so everybody’s scrambling to create the illusion of something where there’s nothing. Belief systems are simply the devices we use to explain away the unthinkable horror of no-self.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“The spiritual atrophying of contemporary culture may be due in large measure to its loss of sensitivity to processes in the collective unconscious.”
― Terrence McKenna

“That gooey stuff inside a Boston crème donut. That’s what you smell like. Now I’ll get a hard-on every time I eat one.”
― Cara McKenna, Willing Victim

“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.”
― Terence McKenna

“I have a counteroffer. I'll tell you the job description I really want."
Raine's throat tightened in frustration. If he was going to keep it on this level, it was up to her to force them to the next one. As always.
Seth looked down at his feet. She saw his Adam's apple bob, once. Twice. He met her eyes, with the look of a man who was facing the firing squad. "Full-time lover," he said hoarsely. "Father of your children. Companion in adventure, champion, guardian, protector, helpmeet, mate. Love of you life. Forever.”
― Shannon McKenna, Behind Closed Doors

“The first step toward power is to accept reality”
― Shannon McKenna, Behind Closed Doors

“The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” – I don’t think psychedelics can address that definitively, but there is another god, a goddess, the goddess of biology, the goddess of the coherent animal human world, the world of the oceans, the atmosphere, and the planet. In short, our world! The world that we were born into, that we evolved into, and that we came from. That world, the psychedelics want to connect us up to… Our individuality, as people and as a species, is an illusion of bad language that the psychedelics dissolve into the greater feeling of connectedness that underlies our being here, and to my mind that’s the religious impulse. It’s not a laundry list of moral dos and don’ts, or a set of dietary prescriptions or practices: it’s a sense of connectedness, responsibility for our fellow human beings and for the earth you walking around on, and because these psychedelics come out of that plant vegetable matrix they are the way back into it.”
― Terence McKenna

“Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and from Egypt forward they’ve been running around believing they had a perfect grip on things and yet we look back at every society that preceded us with great smugness at how naive they all were. Well, it never occurs to us, then, that maybe we’re whistling in the dark too! That the universe is stranger than you CAN suppose, and that that openness that that perception imparts is a great joy, a great blessing, because then you can live your life not in service to some fascistic metaphor but in service to the living mystery: the fact that you’re not going to understand it; it is not going to yield to logic; or magic; or any other technique that’s been developed…”
― Terence McKenna

“I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.”
― Jed McKenna