The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. — 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
The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with. — 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
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — 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
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
You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each… — 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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — 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
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.… — 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
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell… — 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
One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — 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 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
And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians… — 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
