The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
Terence McKennaAn interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Terence McKennaI finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
Terence McKennaYou are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
Terence McKenna...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.
Terence McKenna