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
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in… — 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
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
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in… — 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
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
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. — 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
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip.… — 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
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code. — 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
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
