End time Quote by Terence McKenna

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise…

— Sam Harris

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

— 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

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

— Terence McKenna

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their…

— Terence McKenna

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from…

— Tracy Chevalier

Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of…

— Terence McKenna

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

— Stanislav Grof

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

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

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

— Terence McKenna

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and…

— Terence McKenna