But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
Terence McKennaNothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
Terence McKennaHistory is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
Terence McKennaI think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.
Terence McKenna