Bits Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Susan Schneider

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

— Terence McKenna

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

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what…

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not…

— Georg Feuerstein

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

— John Lennon

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of…

— Alan Watts

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

“But to fully understand this concept we must actually experience it. We almost always forget that our perception of what we call the physical…

— David Jay Brown

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

— Stanislav Grof