Ambiguity Quote by 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

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

Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before.…

— Laura Huxley

Every person's body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else.…

— Ann Shulgin

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

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in…

— Terence McKenna

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

— 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

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the…

— Terence McKenna

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

— Terence McKenna