The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
Terence McKennaWe now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
Terence McKennaTo contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called โthe rupture of planeโ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.
Terence McKenna