A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls… — 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
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — 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
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in… — 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
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
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — 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
