I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
Terence McKennaThe psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
Terence McKennaApparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Terence McKennaCulture 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 McKenna