Animal Quote by Terence McKenna

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

— 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

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want…

— Terence McKenna

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

At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have…

— 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

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

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

— Terence McKenna

What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it…

— Terence McKenna

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…

— Ray Manzarek

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause…

— Terence McKenna