Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just… — 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
