There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — 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
The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where… — 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 future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
