Ayahuasca quotes

Ayahuasca

17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

17 quotes
Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular."

Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly."

Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"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."

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside ayahuasca — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.