There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — 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
