Path Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— 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 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

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 suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put you in…

— Stephen Gaskin

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

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

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what…

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able…

— Ram Dass

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or…

— Terence McKenna

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as…

— Terence McKenna