We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's… — 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
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
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
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians… — 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
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
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
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
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — 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
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — 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
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
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