It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality… — 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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted… — 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
