Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension.