I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKennaThink about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
Terence McKennaNature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
Terence McKennaHuman beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
Terence McKenna