Centerpieces Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it…

— 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

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom…

— Terence McKenna

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

— 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

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 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

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not…

— Terence McKenna