This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying… — 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
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them. — 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
I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not… — 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
