It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
Terence McKennaThe thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.
Terence McKennaWhat we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldnโt imagine it if it werenโt real somewhere, sometime.
Terence McKennaWe need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
Terence McKennaIf we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
Terence McKenna