Terence McKenna

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable wonder, and you are destined to return to those realms.

The bigger the group, the more toxic the dynamic.

The syntactical structures of English are not adequate to describe the psychedelic experience.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and cultural models.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos where we are suspended, and then pulling out something for the community.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we haven't recognized.

Our world is in crisis, and the only way out of it is to change the way we think about it.

The message of the psychedelic experience is that it's all one. It's all connected. It's all part of the same thing.

The antidote to the terror of history is to realize that history is a dream.

The imagination is the goal of psychic evolution.

We are just a way for the cosmos to know itself.

The universe is a 'novelty-producing engine.'

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is a psychedelic experience.

Ego is a structure built out of the language of other people.

The Archaic Revival is not about going back to the past; it's about going forward to the past.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.