I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. — 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
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. — 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
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions. — 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
I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. — 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
The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that… — 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
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — 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 really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.… — 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
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — 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
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. — 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
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. — 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
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
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as… — 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
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
