Conditions Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— 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've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.

— Ken Kesey

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…

— Ray Manzarek

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

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

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Terence McKenna

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of…

— Terence McKenna

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use…

— 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

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

— Albert Hofmann

Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in…

— Timothy Leary