Quote Originally Posted by TakeFlight
well i read it in terrence mckennas book on growing magic mushrooms and i found it on www.deoxy.org and i wanted to know if it was something the mushrooms told mckenna, whoever said it is talking about mushrooms
Getting back to your question, he wrote those words himself based on his own interpretation of what the mushroom "told" him. I guess you could say that he believed he was being "guided" by whomever, or whatever, he met up with when the shrooms took full effect. The phenomenon that he describes having was obtained through extremly large doses and, I'm sure, much meditation and preparation.

Even heavy-tripping people like Timothy Leary were very impressed with McKenna's accomplishments.