I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their… — 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
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. — 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
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
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
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — 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
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
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what… — 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
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — 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
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. — 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
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — 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
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they… — 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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