To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. — 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
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
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind,… — Timothy Leary 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
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
The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount… — Howard Rheingold 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
I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — 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
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
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can… — Janaka Stucky Copy Share Image
“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“I get caught in a hell-world of some sort. In the initial phase, I’m aware of and merging with a kind of… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“(Female) I let go more fully than I ever have. I became the sounds and the movements – no controlling. That is… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had. — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
![“I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.” quote by Adam Lambert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82e/adam-lambert-2417_certain_i-was-looking-for-something-and-i-wasn-t_1401749.jpg)
