A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
Terence McKennaDMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
Terence McKennaIf reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
Terence McKennaThis is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.
Terence McKennaThis is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
Terence McKennaAnd what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKenna