I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
Terence McKennaTo me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
Terence McKennaEven a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
Terence McKennaWe tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we donโt matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
Terence McKenna