Century Quote by 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

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

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

“...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

To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures;…

— 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

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

— Ralph Metzner

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

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

— Terence McKenna

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force…

— Terence McKenna

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna