"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat."
- Terence McKennaAmerican philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna is renowned for his original perspectives on reality and human consciousness. One of his most moving observations highlights how people frequently become distracted by abstract thought and lose sight of the immediate world. According to this the…