The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
Terence McKennaThe Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.
Terence McKennaWhat we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
Terence McKenna