We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we… — 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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like… — 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
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
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. — 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 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
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. — 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
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
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
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out… — 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
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and… — 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
What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into… — 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