It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
Terence McKennaWhat we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
Terence McKennaLanguage, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
Terence McKennaDMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
Terence McKennaWhat the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
Terence McKennaI think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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