It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just… — 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
