The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high… — 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
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human… — 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
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The… — 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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