{"author":"Terence McKenna","author_id":"Terence+McKenna","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["golden","pathway","everywhere "],"id":14061,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["drugs","plants"],"id":26586,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["listening","thinking"],"id":28861,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["alienation","choice","culture","sanity","society"],"id":53034,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["crisis","culture"],"id":54630,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":81193,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["intuition"],"id":84837,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["culture","petition","rights"],"id":107180,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["earth","gun","sustainability","western-civilization"],"id":111550,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"},{"text":"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.","author":"Terence McKenna","tags":["consciousness","crisis","explorer","ideas","wisdom"],"id":111687,"author_id":"Terence+McKenna"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}