Psychedelic Experience Quotes - Page 3

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  Terence McKenna

  Vocabulary, Long, People

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• All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

  Terence McKenna

  Stupid, Soul, Baggage

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• 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

  Ideas, Psychedelic, Standing Out

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  Terence McKenna

  Caring, Self, Expression

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• 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

  Years, Progress, Psychedelic

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• The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

  Howard Rheingold

  Art, Moving, Order

  Source: medium.com

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• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

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• I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.

  Larkin Grimm

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

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• What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Giving, Credit

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• My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

  Laura Huxley

  Today, Firsts, Psychedelic

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• 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

  Psychedelic, Should, Threshold

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• The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Journey, Civilization, Mind

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• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

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• Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, May, Psychedelic

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• What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Talking, Competition, Littles

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• Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

  Terence McKenna

  Path, Psychedelic, Revelations

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• The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

  Terence McKenna

  Reading, Important, Ordinary

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• I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reading, School, Loving Friends

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• What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Connections, World

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• Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

  Dennis McKenna

  Faces, Cups, Lips

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• It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

  Pete Townshend

  Color, Play, Culture

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• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Psychedelic, Sexuality

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• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Animal, Past

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• Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Involved

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