And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere. — 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
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — 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
