This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — 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
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone. — 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 don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence. — 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
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
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
A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in… — 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
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
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The Archaic Revival is a clarion call to recover our birthright, however uncomfortable that may make us. It is a call to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of… — 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
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — 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
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien...… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — 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
