Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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