By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
Terence McKennaThe 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.
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 McKennaClearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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 McKennaI think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.
Terence McKenna