What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
Terence McKennaThe tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
Terence McKennaThe momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.
Terence McKennaI'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Terence McKenna