“It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.” ReasonFactsIndividualBeliefAttitudeMysterySurfaceMagazinesOddUnconsciousReportsEstablishmentEconomistPsychedelicPsychedelic ExperienceTime MagazineHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.” MindMeanIdeasOrderConsciousnessMysteryCivilizationDrugRelateComplexitySomething NewRelevantPsychedelic Author: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
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” IfsStatesHumorFunnyScienceUniverseEducationHappenedMysteryTheoryDiscoveryDisappearReplacedBizarreGalaxyPsychedelicInexplicableMystery Of LifeHitchhikers Guide To The GalaxyHitchhikers GuideHitchhikingSubtle AtheistFunny ScienceAstronomy And UniverseInfinite UniverseThings Are Not What They Seem Author:Douglas Adams
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend” MenLifeTryingSelfForeverDoorsMysterySocietyIgnoranceWallSatisfiedReasoningWiserPsychedelicSystematicUnfathomablePsychedelic ExperienceHuxleyDoors Of Perception Author:Aldous Huxley