I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.… — 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
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — 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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate… — 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
