Book Quote by Frederick Lenz

“The renaissance of interest in Eastern spiritual philosophies, various mystical traditions, meditation, ancient and aboriginal wisdom, as well as the widespread psychedelic experimentation during…

— Stanislav Grof

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

— David Bowie

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

— Terence McKenna

The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.

— Adam Yauch

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

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

— Terence McKenna

“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern adolescent growing…

— Rick Doblin

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

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna