“Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.” InvolvedPsychedelicPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.” ImaginationActivityEnzymes Author:Terence McKenna
“We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.” WorldChildrenCultureBirthOur Children Author:Terence McKenna
“What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.” DoneReturnPlantFemininePsychedelicImmersionGaia Author:Terence McKenna
“The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.” RealPredicamentsOpaque Author:Terence McKenna
“Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.” HumansPersonsMadePositionDrugMade ItInteractionMushroomsAyahuasca Author:Terence McKenna
“That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.” MindCoreOrganizedPuzzling Author:Terence McKenna
“It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.” EnoughAbleCertainLevelsCommunicateMushroomsIntoxication Author:Terence McKenna
“What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.” FirstsMightHappensHoursBarriersLeapSecondsMetaphysicalDoseMushroomsNavigateDmt Author:Terence McKenna