It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — 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
![“What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55e/terence-mckenna-287_advocating_what-they-psychedelics-cause-is-what-i-m_1246718.jpg)
