You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise,… — 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
