Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — 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
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — 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
