Familiarity Quote by Terence McKenna

I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have,…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

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

— 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

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into…

— Terence McKenna

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Terence McKenna

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their…

— Terence McKenna

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

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

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

— Terence McKenna