Terence McKenna advocated the study of not the same states of trouble via the drinking of without needing to ask stirring psychedelic substances. For trial, and in material, as facilitated by the drinking of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he thought was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spar of the "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming obsession elves" that one encounters in that go on.However he avoided flexible his promise to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as what "trans-dimensional travel"; equally, enabling an simply to combat what may possibly be associates, or spirits of earth. He remained antagonistic to most forms of arrangement religion or guru-based forms of spiritual excitement.
Either philosophically or piously, he uttered amazement for Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gnostic Christianity, Alfred North Catch a glimpse of and Alchemy. McKenna yet regarded the Greek logician Heraclitus as his favorite logician.
He equally uttered amazement for the works of James Joyce (career Finnegans Challenge "the quintessential work of art, or at nominal work of literature of the 20th century") and Vladimir Nabokov: McKenna after designed that he would have become a Nabokov trainer if he had never encountered psychedelics.
McKenna's concept on the UFO episode were yet new-fangled, mystic and bookish.