The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
Terence McKenna[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
Terence McKennaOne of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKennaThe drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
Terence McKennaPeople have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.
Terence McKenna