Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name… — 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
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I believe that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the grasslands of Africa gave us the model for all religions to follow.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — 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
