Civil liberties Quote by Terence McKenna

What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a…

— Terence McKenna

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize…

— Graham Hancock

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

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

— Terence McKenna

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

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because…

— Terence McKenna

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of…

— Terence McKenna

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the…

— 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

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

— 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

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna