The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.
Terence McKennaYou may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
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