There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And… — 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
