Creative Quote by Ray Manzarek

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

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

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

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— 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

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

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

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

I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from…

— Terence McKenna