“I believe that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the grasslands of Africa gave us the model for all religions to follow.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter… — 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
