I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.
Terence McKennaShamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
Terence McKennaIn a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
Terence McKennaOur destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
Terence McKenna