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
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
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to… — 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
