So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't… — 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
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics 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
