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> [Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/nobody-can-have-your-psychedelic-experience-for-you-you-just-have-to/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

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## More by Dennis McKenna

> [Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/nobody-can-have-your-psychedelic-experience-for-you-you-just-have-to/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/as-the-sphere-of-understanding-grows-ever-larger-necessarily-the/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/think-for-yourself-and-believe-in-yourself-keep-your-skeptical/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/ayahuasca-is-a-symbiotic-ally-of-the-human-species/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/no-wonder-psychedelics-are-threatening-to-an-authoritarian-religious/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [You monkeys only think you’re running things,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/you-monkeys-only-think-you-re-running-things/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [“Thanks to Luis Eduardo, I learned a number of things about Pablo I hadn’t gathered during our previous conversations. The big surprise was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/thanks-to-luis-eduardo-i-learned-a-number-of-things-about-pablo-i/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/i-get-frustrated-with-people-who-say-that-a-drug-experience-can-have/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

> [ All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own \[endogenous\] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/all-experience-is-a-drug-experience-whether-it-s-mediated-by-our-own/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

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