I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKennaThe sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
Terence McKennaThe idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.
Terence McKennaI think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
Terence McKenna