Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
Terence McKennaWe need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
Terence McKennaWhat blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Terence McKennaClearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
Terence McKenna