Conditioning Quote by Terence McKenna

And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of…

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a…

— Terence McKenna

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

— Terence McKenna

“To counter our intense cultural conditioning, we must possess a sense of curious engagement to venture into the unconscious. Even though it's a part…

— Robert Waggoner

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying…

— Terence McKenna

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you…

— Terence McKenna

I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build,…

— Terence McKenna

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one…

— Andrew Weil

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt.…

— Terence McKenna

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is…

— Terence McKenna

“The renaissance of interest in Eastern spiritual philosophies, various mystical traditions, meditation, ancient and aboriginal wisdom, as well as the widespread psychedelic experimentation during…

— Stanislav Grof

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

— Eckhart Tolle