As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.
Terence McKennaShamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Terence McKennaThe terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
Terence McKennaPsychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
Terence McKenna