And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.