The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — 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
