The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in… — 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
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of… — 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
“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
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. — 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
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — 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
