Evolution 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

“...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

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

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

— Ken Kesey

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

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

“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

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us…

— Terence McKenna

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge…

— Oliver Sacks

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain,…

— David Levithan

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds…

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of…

— Terence McKenna