Activity Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

— Ian Brown

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

— Stanislav Grof

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

— Terence McKenna

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause…

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of…

— Alan Watts

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

— Terence McKenna

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out…

— Alexander Shulgin

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…

— Ray Manzarek

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna