The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — 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
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self. — 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
And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the… — 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
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level. — 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
