To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. — 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
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to… — 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
