Psychedelic Quotes by Terence McKenna

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

— Terence McKenna

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

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The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

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The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

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Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...

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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

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What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of…

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I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people…

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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put…

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I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that…

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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from…

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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we…

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The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it…

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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…

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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of…

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The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect…

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The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the…

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And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying…

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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see…

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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that…

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There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the…

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What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in…

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One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

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Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high…

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It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other…

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Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But…

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It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.…

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“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the…

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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

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Memory training is great psychedelic training.

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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna