You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
Terence McKennaI don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
Terence McKennaI think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.
Terence McKennaSo what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.
Terence McKenna