I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. — 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
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted… — 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
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete… — 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
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world… — 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
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical… — 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
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — 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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