The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect… — 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
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — 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 pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that… — 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
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is… — 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
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — 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
“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in… — 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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