This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.
Terence McKennaInform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Terence McKennaPsychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
Terence McKennaWe now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
Terence McKennaThere is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
Terence McKennaIt's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
Terence McKenna