Chemicals Quote by Terence McKenna

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

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

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want…

— Terence McKenna

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

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

— Terence McKenna

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

— Stanislav Grof

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