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
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — 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
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. — 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
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