Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
Terence McKennaThis is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
Terence McKennaThis is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.
Terence McKennaWhen we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
Terence McKenna