We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
Terence McKennaWhat I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.
Terence McKennaAnd certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then โTHEYโ recruited me and said, โyou know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organizationโ. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.
Terence McKenna