I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to… — 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
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — 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
Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together. — 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
I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community. — 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
