Culture Quote by Terence McKenna

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

— George Carlin

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

— Terence McKenna

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

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

— Terence McKenna

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

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

— Terence McKenna

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens…

— Terence McKenna

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force…

— Terence McKenna

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it…

— Albert Hofmann

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and…

— Terence McKenna

“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…

— Stuart Hall