“I had a friend back in the 60s who one day on LSD took a toothpick and he sat for fourteen solid hours with the toothpick and a large red brick and he demolished it. He reduced it to nothing with this toothpick, and his fingernail long after the toothpick was gone, and this is what we have to do to…”— Terence McKenna, terencemckenna.wikispaces.comTagged: LSD, Examples of Metaphors, Extended Metaphors, Moving The Plates of the Earth
“We actually all create our own universe, because we are all operating with our own private languages which are only very crudely translatable into any other person's language.”— Terence McKenna, terencemckenna.wikispaces.comTagged: Private Languages, Secret Communications, Bubble of Reality, What You See When You See
“We must begin to send out ideological visions rather than be the consumers of them. We need to turn off the metaphorical televisions which are hooking us into the network of cultural assumptions dictated from the Pentagon and Madison Avenue and what-have-you. We need, instead, to turn on our termina…”— Terence McKenna, terencemckenna.wikispaces.comTagged: New World Orders, Dreaming of Utopias, Dreaming of New Realities