Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
Terence McKennaThe fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.
Terence McKennaShamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Terence McKenna