Top 12 Terence Mckenna Mushrooms Quotes
#1. What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?
Gurcharan Das
#2. The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
Kirsten Dunst
#3. Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.
Terence McKenna
#4. There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.
Woody Allen
#5. 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.
Terence McKenna
#6. What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the Mandela, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
Terence McKenna
#8. Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.
Jackie Gleason
#10. Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it ... The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
Terence McKenna
#11. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
#12. The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
Terence McKenna