Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
Terence McKennaI believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
Terence McKennaNo one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
Terence McKennaSo what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.
Terence McKenna