Ascending Quote by Terence McKenna

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is…

— Terence McKenna

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

“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at…

— Cameron Adams

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

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

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

— Ken Kesey

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience.…

— Rick Doblin

Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to…

— Terence McKenna