To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Terence McKennaThe Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
Terence McKennaThe reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
Terence McKennaA long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.
Terence McKennaTo date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Terence McKennaI think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
Terence McKenna