Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
Terence McKennaThere's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
Terence McKennaYou are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, โWhat is it?โ In that moment art can be created.
Terence McKennaYou could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
Terence McKennaThe real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKennaA long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.
Terence McKenna