Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.
Terence McKennaTo date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Terence McKennaPsychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
Terence McKennaThe miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
Terence McKennaBasically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
Terence McKennaThe psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
Terence McKennaThe same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
Terence McKenna