Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people… — 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
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
