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 world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one… — 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
...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the… — 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
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are… — 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
