Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
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
On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we… — 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
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And… — 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
![“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1d/terence-mckenna-287_anecdotes_we-psychonauts-are-all-going-to-go-into_646498.jpg)
