To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
Terence McKennaNature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Terence McKennaScience does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
Terence McKennaIf you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'
Terence McKennaThere is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.
Terence McKenna