Drug 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

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

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

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

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or…

— Dennis McKenna

All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In…

— Terence McKenna

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 central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and…

— 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

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're…

— Ann Shulgin

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown