Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKennawas an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth16 November 1946
CityPaonia, CO
CountryUnited States of America
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.