We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
Terence McKennaA history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
Terence McKennaTo carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Terence McKennaThere is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.
Terence McKennaWhat we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Terence McKenna