Models Quote by Terence McKenna

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

— Susan Schneider

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

— Terence McKenna

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature,…

— Frederick Lenz

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

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're…

— Ann Shulgin

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 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

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

— Terence McKenna

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Ken Kesey