Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
Terence McKennaNo one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
Terence McKennaTo date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Terence McKennaIt is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
Terence McKenna