The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — 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
