Ambience Quote by Laura Huxley

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in…

— Terence McKenna

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

— Laura Huxley

“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers - doctors - who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers,…

— Alexander Shulgin

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or…

— Dennis McKenna

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of…

— Alan Watts

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Terence McKenna

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the…

— Terence McKenna