You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, โWhat is it?โ In that moment art can be created.
Terence McKennaIt is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Terence McKennaOne of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Terence McKennaThe purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
Terence McKennaDrugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.
Terence McKenna