The amazing thing about psychedelics is they don’t depend on a state of grace, they don’t depend on allegiance to a leader, they don’t even depend on a special diet or theological predilection. The astonishing news about these psychedelic experiences is: You don’t have to go to India for ten years. You don’t have to be chosen by Babaji. This works for most people, and would probably work for you.
If you think the world has no surprises, if you think that you’ve got it all figured out, and you haven’t ever had an intense, boundary-dissolving psychedelic, then you’re absolutely out to lunch. You don’t know what’s going on. It’s like the opinions of eleven year old boys about sexuality, what do they know that they should hold such opinions?
Terence McKenna (via voiceboxshells)
“That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the most so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the long to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.”
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)