Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
Terence McKennaPart of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
Terence McKennaArt's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
Terence McKennaThe imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Terence McKennaThe 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.
Terence McKenna