Culture Quote by 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

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

“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern adolescent growing…

— Rick Doblin

The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about nothing, you…

— Dom Thomas

The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is…

— Rick Doblin

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 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

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

— Terence McKenna

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that…

— 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 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