Architecture Quote by Terence McKenna

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

— Terence McKenna

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

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

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

— Terence McKenna

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

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

— Terence McKenna

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

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

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

— Terence McKenna

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

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

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

— Terence McKenna