I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien...… — 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
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — 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
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — 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 future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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
