"One of the great puzzles about this compound is why more people don’t know about it. Why this is not four-inch headlines on every newspaper on the planet, I cannot understand, because, I don’t know what news you were waiting for, but this is the news that I was waiting for. The DMT thing, it’s like an avalanche of orgasmic beauty, but a certain kind of beauty. The only words that I can find for the kind of beauty that it is, is: 'bizarre,' 'alien,' 'outlandish,' 'autre,' 'freaky,' and at the very edge of what the human mind seems to be able to hold. Well, where is this coming from? And, WHAT—IS—HAPPENING?" -Terence McKenna
"These molecules are planar. That means they’re flat, they’re simple, sometimes 20-30 atoms. And yet they totally transform your entire consciousness. This is the equivalent of a red ant who can rip down the Empire State building in an hour-and-a-half. I mean, why is mind so delicately poised that such a tiny amount of pharmaceutical material can create such vast changes?" -Terence McKenna
"There are all kinds of ways in this world for us to challenge ourselves. Some people might do it by climbing a mountain. Some people might do it by SCUBA diving. Some people might do it by jumping out of an airplane and hoping the parachute will open. There are lots of ways to challenge ourselves, but actually, one of the most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink ayahuasca. It is, in a way, the ultimate adventure. Ayahuasca will bring you to revelations that psychotherapy might take decades to bring you to. It’s extraordinarily difficult, but you are being offered the opportunity to make changes in your life, and that is an incredibly valuable opportunity. Because most often it’s difficult to make changes because you simply don’t se they’re needed. Ayahuasca sooner or later she will show you what you need to do; whether you do it, that’s up to you, but she will show you. And then beyond that. There is the enchanted realm of vision. There is the sense of a magical universe. That we are actually not caught up in something mundane, physical and down to earth, only. But in something that’s deeply enchanted and magical in this adventure of life. And in the incredible opportunity to be born in a human body. And to undergo the teachings and learning experience that life in a human body involves. And to live on this beautiful garden of a planet surrounded by the majestic wonder of the universe. To look up at night and see that, and be part of that, and wonder where we are in the scheme of things. That there is behind all this not just dead, physical processes, but a profound, magical intelligence which is at work in the universe. Ayahuasca will show you that, sooner or later, more clearly than anything else you could ever experience." - Graham Hancock