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
The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves. — 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
