Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't… — 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
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately. — 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
