The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.
Terence McKennaWe are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
Terence McKennaUltimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
Terence McKennaThis is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.
Terence McKenna