Quotes by Psychedelic 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 psychedelicegoabsence 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 psychedelicdespairself Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. Terence McKenna compoundspsychedelicboundaries Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. Terence McKenna psychedelicunderstandingshould I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind. Terence McKenna psychedelicmindpeople We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language. Terence McKenna psychedelicevolutionmoving 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 centerpiecespsychedelicwant '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 psychedelicdrugtwo Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean. Terence McKenna telepathypsychedelicmean 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 psychedelicdrugevolution What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. Terence McKenna descriptionpsychedelicstates We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. Terence McKenna droppingpsychedelicdropping-out 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 psychedelicstanding-outideas 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 thresholdpsychedelicshould Memory training is great psychedelic training. Terence McKenna psychedelictrainingmemories Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. Terence McKenna psychedelicrevelationspath In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. Terence McKenna sexualitypsychedelicpeople The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. Terence McKenna psychedelicspeechthinking One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. Terence McKenna librarypsychedelicpeople What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things. Terence McKenna psychedelicshouldattitude«12345»
