Terence McKenna

'So then we decided well where the gnosis must be is in the Amazon where we knew there was a pristine aboriginal shamanism based on hallucinogens.'

'And the concept was he seemed to have gotten a very deep connection into this logos-like gnosis-conveying force in the mushroom and it began talking about how you could use this thing to essentially give birth to your own soul.'

'Random mutation is presented as something which is to be traced back to cosmic rays'

'The morphogenetic field, the invisible world that holds everything together the knit of it all not the knit of matter and light but the knit of kazooistry, of intentionality, of caring, of hope, of dream, of thought and that all is there but it's been hidden from us for centuries because of the exorcism of the spirit that took place in order to allow science to do business.'

'So, I think, the plants change, the drugs change, but the challenge stays the same. The challenge is to build a humane and human world without doing damage to the humanity that's already been.'

'It requires dedication and intelligence, not so much among our shaman and our inner voyagers, but among the legislators and the people who actually are going to have to make the social change.'

'Can you all hear me? Can you hear in the back? Make them hear in the back. God came and made man, and from man, woman, and that men and women are of so ontologically a different level than the rest of nature that no conclusion about us can be drawn from an examination of nature'

'The great grasslands of the Sahara the huge water holes, the vast herds of game gave way to encroaching dunes shrinking water holes the mushroom festivals,'

'What happened? Is there a search for scapegoats? Who's to blame? And the answer is nobody is to blame the very process which brought this paradise into being which was ...'

'Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas.'

'To whatever degree anyone of us can bring back a small piece of picture and can contribute to the building of the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit.'

'We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over'

'A psychedelic person is not willing to be a good citizen, or a good anything that is defined by somebody else. I mean, the shaman is a true anarchist'

'Wisdom... Consciouness expanding'

'Colony of self-transforming, hyperdimensional machine creatures that came bounding forward with joyful squeaks to dribble themselves like self-transforming jewelled basketballs on the floor in front of me, and I was dumbstruck with amazement.'

Nothing lasts, nothing lasts, everything is changing into something else. Nothing is wrong, nothing is wrong, everything is on track.

(...)

You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

So! You take let us assume a third toke; long and slow. You vaporize and you take it in and in and in... and there is a sound like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of a flame and a tone. A mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and there is this.......

There is a cheer. The gnomes have learned a new way to say hooray.

The walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucinations.

Very brightly coloured, very iridescent. Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy but that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited.

And so like jeweled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say...

'So I think they really do not understand what a powerful hallucinogen this is.'

'... powerful hallucinogen this is.'