We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — 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
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
People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image