Claims Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— 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 do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to…

— Peter Max

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

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

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

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention,…

— Frederick Lenz

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

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

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to…

— Annie Besant

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a…

— Terence McKenna

The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even…

— Beryl Bender Birch