Human history is a Gain dream.

— Terence McKenna

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

— Terence McKenna

I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and am always keen to attack it in most situations, though not here, because I love Reason, and I'm perfectly aware of the difference. Furthermore, I also know what a concept means like Rules of Evidence. Furthermore, I'm not sure if that's a concept as widely circulated in these circles as it needs to be - in other words, how *do* you tell shit from shingle? That's very critical. I think reason can only take us a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination, but with all safety systems fully in operation, or the divine imagination will lead us into complete paranoia.

— Terence McKenna

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

— Terence McKenna

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The Mystery is in the Body and the way the Body Works itself into Nature.

— Terence McKenna

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

— Terence McKenna

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must recondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

— Terence McKenna

It’s very important that people take back their minds and that people analyze our dilemma in the context of the entire human story from the descent onto the grassland to our potential destiny as citizens of the galaxy and the universe. We are at a critical turning point and, as I say; the tools, the data that holds the potential for our salvation is now known, it is available: it is among us, but it is misrepresented, it is slandered, it is litigated against, and it’s up to each one of us to relate to this situation in a fashion that will allow us to answer the question that will surely be put to us at some point in the future, which is: What did you do to help save the world?

— Terence McKenna

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

— Terence McKenna

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidence apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou salts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

— Terence McKenna