What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
Terence McKennaShamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Terence McKennaYou may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
Terence McKennaApparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Terence McKennaThe content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
Terence McKenna