The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind... — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about:… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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