This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the… — 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
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
