The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
Terence McKennaThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
Terence McKennaShamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Terence McKennaThe human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
Terence McKennaDMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
Terence McKennaAyahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.
Terence McKenna