Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
Terence McKennaThe Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
Terence McKennaThat's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
Terence McKennaReality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
Terence McKennaIt's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.
Terence McKenna