Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then… — 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
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the… — 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
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we… — 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
