
Food of the Gods

As we have seen, human history could be written as a series of relationships with plants, relationships made and broken.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Later, during the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency would use the same technique to smother political dissent in American black ghettos under an avalanche of No. 4 China White—heroin of extraordinary purity.6
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Nature is not mute, but modern man is deaf—made deaf because he is unwilling to hear the message of caring, balance, and cooperation that is nature’s message.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryptofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
Such compounds are apparently functioning
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
To my mind, the pro-psychedelic position is most fundamentally threatening to the Establishment because, when fully and logically thought through, it is an anti-drug, anti-addiction position. And make no mistake about it; the issue is drugs. How drugged shall you be? Or, to put it another way, how conscious shall you be?
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
The woman ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; this mysterious fruit is the psilocybin-containing mushroom Stropharia cubensis that catalyzed the Tassili partnership Eden
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
I know of Spaniards who imitate this custom, and when I reprimanded the savage practice, they answered that it was not in their power to refrain from indulging in the habit.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
In our state of denial we must proclaim nature mute—how else to avoid facing the awful crimes we have committed for centuries against nature and each other. The Nazis said that Jews were not true human beings and that their mass murder was thus not of any consequence.