For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
Terence McKennaIn a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
Terence McKennaThe Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.
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 McKenna