Quotes by 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 psychedelicprogressyears To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. Terence McKenna psychedelictryingreality 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 scientific-methodpsychedelicbears One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available. Terence McKenna psychedelicculturethinking 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 psychedelictryingreality Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. Terence McKenna dmtpsychedelicevolution All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion. Terence McKenna hallucinationspsychedelicshould The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is? Terence McKenna psychedelicmomentsreason The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations. Terence McKenna psychedelicdataexpectations Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. Terence McKenna psychedelic-experienceinvolvedpsychedelic What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. Terence McKenna psychedelicreturndone 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 psychedelicsurrenderdrug The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. Terence McKenna psychedelicmadnessdrug If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. Terence McKenna psychedelicdifferencesdying The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it. Terence McKenna psychedelicpathpeople I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. Terence McKenna burstingpsychedelicideas Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. Terence McKenna psychedeliccreatingego By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. Terence McKenna phasespsychedelicspace Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. Terence McKenna psychedelicmaythinking Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna involvementpsychedelicimagination«12345»
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