Concentration Quote by Terence McKenna

I've probably had more hits in South America than I've had in North America.

— B. J. Thomas

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

— Terence McKenna

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears…

— Terence McKenna

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the…

— Terence McKenna

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

— Terence McKenna

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves…

— Douglas Coupland

I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as…

— Terence McKenna

“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human beings for…

— Gabor Maté

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures…

— Rick Doblin

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they…

— Terence McKenna

I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the…

— Zoe Helene

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers;…

— William S. Burroughs