Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind... — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know… — 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
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of… — 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
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the… — 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
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control.… — 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
