Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately. — 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
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath… — 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
![“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24e/terence-mckenna-287_atmosphere_the-current-operating-system-culture-is_2601815.jpg)
