Becoming Quote by 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

Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas…

— 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

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with…

— Maynard James Keenan

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

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

— Terence McKenna

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

— Alexander Shulgin

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

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

Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to…

— Terence McKenna

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity…

— Terence McKenna