Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that… — 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
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — 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
