By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — 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
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of… — 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
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — 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
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 have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — 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
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about:… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. — 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
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
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding,… — 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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