Psychedelic Quotes

• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Training
  • Memories
  • Psychedelic

• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Consciousness

• 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

• I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Growing
  • Should

• 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

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Force
  • Creating
  • Boundaries

• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Path

• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Communicate
  • Messages

• The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Plant
  • Function

• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Fraud
  • Familiarity

• What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Competition
  • Littles
  • Term

• What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Attention
  • Kind
  • Church

• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Dying
  • Calm

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Psychedelic
  • Involvement

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Paradox
  • Viewpoints

• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Absence
  • Denied
  • Shamanism

• I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ego
  • Views
  • Dialogue

• The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Understanding
  • Imagination

• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Facts
  • Astronaut

• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Maturity
  • Manipulation

• One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Enough
  • Library
  • Psychedelic

• 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
  • Language
  • Drug
  • Social

• 'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Position
  • Members

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