Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Terence McKenna on extraterrestrials and their deal with the human race.
Art by Russell King russellkingart.com
"There is a mythology of the saucer, of the animate quality, that this thing is intelligent, and that it desires a symbiotic relationship with man, and it's not hard to see why, because it's a real breakthrough for a species to cut a deal with human beings, then you come in from the cold, you're no longer subject to the vicissitudes of Darwinian selection, you've become a domesticated plant or animal, from now on your fate is entirely linked to the fate of all the other domesticated plants and animals and their husbandman: the human race."
Terence McKenna on extraterrestrials and their deal with the human race.
Art by Russell King russellkingart.com
"There is a mythology of the saucer, of the animate quality, that this thing is intelligent, and that it desires a symbiotic relationship with man, and it's not hard to see why, because it's a real breakthrough for a species to cut a deal with human beings, then you come in from the cold, you're no longer subject to the vicissitudes of Darwinian selection, you've become a domesticated plant or animal, from now on your fate is entirely linked to the fate of all the other domesticated plants and animals and their husbandman: the human race."
