We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Terrence McKenna

The perturbation of brain chemistry is easily done.  What is not so easily done is the assimilation of the consequences of this act.

Terrence McKenna

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you might jump out of a third story window.  Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.  They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

Terrence McKenna

…the universe is…an art-making machine. An engine for the production of ever-more novel forms of connectedness…

Terrence McKenna