The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — 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
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — 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
