We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — 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
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of… — 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
