I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is… — 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
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like… — 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
It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing… — 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
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