What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.
Terence McKennaThis is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Terence McKennaWe need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
Terence McKennaPsychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.
Terence McKennaTelevision, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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