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
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a… — 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
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply… — 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
![“What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/55e/terence-mckenna-287_advocating_what-they-psychedelics-cause-is-what-i-m_1246718.jpg)
![“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/24e/terence-mckenna-287_atmosphere_the-current-operating-system-culture-is_2601815.png)
