The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
Terence McKennaCertainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.
Terence McKennaFlying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
Terence McKenna