The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man.… — 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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to… — 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
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present… — 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
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — 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
