I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — 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
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all… — 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
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
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
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it… — 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
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 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
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
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — 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
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions. — 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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