Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism,… — 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
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — 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
