Drug Quote by Terence McKenna

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

— 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

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

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

— Timothy Leary

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological…

— Terence McKenna

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

— 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

We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of…

— Rick Doblin

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

— Terence McKenna

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have…

— Terence McKenna

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

— 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