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
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches,… — 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
