And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
Terence McKennaWe can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.
Terence McKennaCyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
Terence McKennaBecause I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.
Terence McKennaWe need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
Terence McKennaWe are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Terence McKenna