What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.
Terence McKennaAnd psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
Terence McKennaThis unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.
Terence McKennaI believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
Terence McKennaLanguage is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Terence McKenna