The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order. — 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
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind... — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — 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
To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back… — 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
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then… — 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
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern… — 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
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked… — 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
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This… — 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
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
