Concepts Quote by 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

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

— Terence McKenna

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve…

— Terence McKenna

The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright…

— Terence McKenna

“...The efficacy of psychedelics with regard to art has to do with their ability to render language weightless, as fluid and ephemeral as those…

— Dave Hickey

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

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

— Terence McKenna

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and…

— Terence McKenna

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that…

— Terence McKenna

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

— Stanislav Grof

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort…

— Chris Robinson

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

— Terence McKenna