Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Terence McKennaWhat we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldnโt imagine it if it werenโt real somewhere, sometime.
Terence McKennaThink about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
Terence McKennaPeople have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.
Terence McKenna