People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. — 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
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
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while… — 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
