I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
Terence McKennaSince the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
Terence McKennaAnything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
Terence McKennaThe war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.
Terence McKenna