The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
Terence McKennaWhat is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
Terence McKennaWe have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
Terence McKennaIn a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Terence McKenna