Psychedelic Quotes

• All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Soul
  • Stupid
  • Facts

• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Strange

• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

  

  Anton Newcombe
  • Music
  • Psychedelic
  • Mishmash

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Possession
  • Identical

• The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Danger
  • Madness

• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Fit

• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Promise

• We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Order
  • Dimensions
  • Disguise

• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Drug
  • Motivated

• There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.

  

  Noel Fielding
  • World
  • Reality
  • Psychedelic

• 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 and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Drug

• Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Boundaries
  • Compounds
  • Dissolving

• Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ideas
  • Form
  • Platonic

• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Committed
  • Comment
  • Ambiguity

• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Christianity

• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Training
  • Memories
  • Psychedelic

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Destined
  • Prehistoric
  • Centerpieces

• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dying
  • Differences
  • Pun

• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Sexuality
  • Manage
  • Psychedelic

• So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelic
  • Unanswered

• The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Path

• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Force
  • Creating
  • Boundaries

• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Despair
  • Driven
  • Inevitable

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