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
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to… — 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
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that… — 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
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the… — 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
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
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination. — 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
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
