We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'. — 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
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