If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. — 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 reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — 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
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
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It… — Terence Mckenna Copy Share Image
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have… — Terence McKenna 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
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — 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
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one… — 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
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an… — Terence McKenna 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
The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the… — 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
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 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
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
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — 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
![“What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process…” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/terence-mckenna-287_advocating_what-they-psychedelics-cause-is-what-i-m_1246718.jpg)
