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title: "4 Archetype Quotes By Terence McKenna"
description: "4 Archetype quotes by Terence McKenna. Plus more from Terence McKenna and more Archetype sayings from other authors."
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> [Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/chaos-is-what-we-ve-lost-touch-with-this-is-why-it-is-given-a-bad/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-things-i-encounter-that-i-call-elves-or-gnomes-it-s-just-a-gloss/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/psychedelic-drugs-especially-psilocybin-allow-a-searchlight-to-be/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/a-history-stopping-archetype-is-being-released-into-the-skies-of-this/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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## Other authors on Archetype

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-jung-20958.jpg) Carl Jung 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/archetype/carl-jung/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wayne-dyer-94637.jpg) Wayne Dyer 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/archetype/wayne-dyer/)

## More by Terence McKenna

> [History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/history-was-an-incredibly-damaging-experience-and-now-it-s-over-in-a/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-history-of-man-that-you-don-t-know-is-what-your-unconscious-is/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-consciousness-we-may-not-always-be-monkeys/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-here-is-we-are-living-past-the-age-by-the-millions/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-history-is-essentially-is-a-careening-out-of-control-effort-to/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-what-is-the-primary-datum-it-s-the-felt-presence-of-immediate/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/our-culture-difinitely-takes-an-egocentric-dominator-view-the-fear-of/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/every-step-into-freedom-contains-within-it-the-potential-for-greater/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-the-message-of-your-life-and-my-life-it-s-that-nothing-lasts/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/knowledge-or-verbal-facility-is-no-proof-that-you-know-what-you-re/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/no-culture-on-earth-is-as-heavily-narcotized-as-the-industrial-west/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/man-was-not-put-on-this-planet-to-toil-in-the-mud-or-the-god-who-put/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

> [If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-you-take-psychedelics-and-the-internet-and-music-and-put-all-of/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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