Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Terence McKennaThe monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
Terence McKennaWe cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
Terence McKennaWe are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
Terence McKenna