Community Quote by Terence McKenna

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize…

— Graham Hancock

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

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

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of…

— Terence McKenna

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the…

— 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

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity…

— 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

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with…

— Maynard James Keenan

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

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

— Terence McKenna