The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but… — 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
...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push… — 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
