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
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — 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
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world… — 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
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools. — 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
Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant… — 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
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
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world… — 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
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
We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.… — 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
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
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
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul… — 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
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it. — 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 world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of… — 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
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 not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. — 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
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a… — 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