“Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.” Quote by Terence McKenna
“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.” PeopleDifferentSpiritualMysteryTwentiesWaveSeekingWideMilesTricksSeekersPsychedelicStanceAnd OffTidal Waves Author:Terence McKenna
“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.” KindAbleChurchAttentionAcceptingWorthyAbstractionPsychedelicPeddling Author:Terence McKenna
“There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.” MomentsHandsCertainDifficultExistenceForeverFiveDimensionsOur RelationshipDifficult Moments Author:Terence McKenna
“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.” ShouldCommittedCommentAmbiguityPsychedelicThresholdDosePsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.” ThinkingTryingSaidImportantIdeasDoneAbleAnimalNovelInterfaces Author:Terence McKenna
“Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.” HumansEgoMalesPopulationContactNeuroticPsychedelicHuman PopulationMale Ego Author:Terence McKenna
“One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?” WayFeelsNextDrugOne WayNext DayToxicityAssessing Author:Terence McKenna
“DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.” IfsKnowsWantPowerfulStrongerMost PowerfulDmtHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.” HumansSeemsLanguageOrganizationSurface Author:Terence McKenna
“It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.” AnswersMastersEntityZen Master Author:Terence McKenna