The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
Terence McKennaLanguage is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Terence McKennaThe future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
Terence McKennaIf the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKennaWhere psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
Terence McKenna