DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from… — 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
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
