Psychedelic Quotes

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Psychedelic

• There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Progress
  • Quantity
  • Ecstatic

• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Desert
  • Calling

• And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • May
  • Police
  • Force

• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Style
  • Architecture
  • Species

• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mean

• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Firsts

• For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Reality
  • Years

• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Population
  • Contact

• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Habit
  • Drug
  • motivation

• Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Cousin

• By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelic
  • Passing
  • Adolescence

• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Language

• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelic
  • Description

• The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Study
  • Bears
  • Method

• I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Dream
  • Inspiration
  • Dimensions

• Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Path
  • Psychedelic
  • Revelations

• Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Reality
  • Kind
  • Conclusion

• Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Choices
  • Tools

• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
  • Moments
  • Religious

• It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Mystery

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