Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
Terence McKennaIf you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
Terence McKennaBasically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
Terence McKennaI'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
Terence McKenna