TERENCE MCKENNA: Philosophy with a hands on attitude.  
Philosophy not made around a campfire.  
Philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience, 
that's how you figure out what the world is.  
Not by bicycling around in the burbs, 
but by forcing extreme experience.  
The reason people refer to psychedelic endeavours with the vocabulary of travel 
'taking a trip' 
and so on is because that is an extreme endeavour. 
Its the same endeavour. 
Its the leaving behind of the values of your own culture.  
Take nothing but a change of clothes fly to Benares 
and take up residence at the Sosinagack [SPELLING MAY NOT BE CORRECT] 
 among the Charis Sadues [SPELLING MAY NOT BE CORRECT]
and I guarantee you weather you resort to psychedelics or not 
you will experience boundary dissolution a reorienting of categories and a reframing of your perspective on your life and your being.  
So extreme experience is the necessary key.. 
This is true in all forms of endeavour.  
If you want to understand the atom... 
you have to smash it.  
Sitting around looking at it, it will never yield its secrets.  
You have to smash that sucker to bits 
and then collect the pieces 
and then examine exactly how it all came apart 
in the same way and 
without you know going to far afield for the pun 
we must smash ordinary consciousness 
get smashed and then look at the pieces flying in all directions and say 
gee I didn't know minds could do that.  
Well uh they can't in the work a day rote of 
you know living inside the little boxes 
of constipated behaviourism and all of this.
