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
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — 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
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that… — 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
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that… — 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 sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the… — 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
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. — 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
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — 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
“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
“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
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
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
