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
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that… — 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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