We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools. — 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
