Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — 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
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — 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
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — 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
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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
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
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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