Involved Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— 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

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

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again…

— Jerry Garcia

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 simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere…

— 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

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

— Terence McKenna

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is…

— Terence McKenna

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're…

— Ann Shulgin

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or…

— Dennis McKenna

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and…

— Terence McKenna