I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
Terence McKennaWe are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
Terence McKennaNothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
Terence McKennaThe things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.
Terence McKennaWhat I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
Terence McKenna