Terra II is the grand culmination of Leary's research into the human condition. It is a proposal to construct an intergalactic ark of immense proportions, a surrogate earth to carry five thousand volunteers into the center of the universe in an endless voyage of discovery and harmony. - High TimesThe serious and practical intention of the Starseed company to launch a frail and pitifully slow craft into the limitless expanse of space in the hopes of contacting technologically superior civilizations may seem futilely optimistic. But in another sense we are simply following the historical imperatives provided for us by our immediate past. Imagine the year is 1490 and that we belong to an Amerindian tribe living on the Atlantic coast. We outfit our largest canoe, filled with water and supplies and head east hoping to find what actually there existed, the superior technologies of England, Spain and Portugal. What a dramatic change it would have effected in the psychological history of the world if Europe had been discovered by the Indians, sailing into Cadiz harbor with the proud, confident dignity of a race who dared to dream. That, after all, is the main difference between generations and races of humanity.

There are those who discover and those who wait to be discovered. - - Timothy Leary, Terra II: A Way Out.