895 Quotes by Terence McKenna

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

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