Competition Quote by Terence McKenna

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

— 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

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

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is…

— Terence McKenna

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

— Frederick Lenz

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

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

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

— 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

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

— Terence McKenna

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not…

— Bill Hicks

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