The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
Terence McKennaThe miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
Terence McKennaThe shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
Terence McKennaThere is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Terence McKennaSo the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.
Terence McKenna