There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves. — 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
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately. — 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
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
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you… — 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
