Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

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

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

Terence Mckenna

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Terence Mckenna

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Terence Mckenna

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

Terence Mckenna

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening.

Terence Mckenna

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality.

Terence Mckenna

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Terence Mckenna

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

Terence Mckenna

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer.

Terence Mckenna

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet

Terence Mckenna