The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind. — 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
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — 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
