This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
Terence McKennaSo you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.
Terence McKennaI think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
Terence McKennaAnd I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.
Terence McKennaCyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
Terence McKennaWe are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
Terence McKenna