Psychedelic Quotes · Page 4

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

— Timothy Leary

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

— George Harrison

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic,…

— Klaus Schulze

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

— Terence McKenna

There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.

— Stanislav Grof

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

— Terence McKenna

“When you reunite with your soul, everything that you think changes and all of the pain goes away.”

— Gerard Armond Powell

Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too;…

— Tim Harford

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what…

— Brian Chippendale

Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that…

— Richard Lloyd

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they…

— Humphry Osmond

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization…

— Terence McKenna

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back…

— Jerry Garcia

Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics…

— Ian Astbury

Probably every band - you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic,…

— Kyle Gass

“No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to…

— Steven Kotler

I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid…

— Bill Hicks

It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or…

— Joe Rogan

LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical…

— Albert Hofmann

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these…

— Albert Hofmann

For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who…

— Tim Hecker

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun,…

— Jerry Saltz

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

— Hakim Bey

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

— Robin Pecknold

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

— Terence McKenna

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

— Terence McKenna

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

— Jeremy S. Anderson

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the…

— Chelsea Leyland

The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race

— Hugo Rahner

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

— Alexander Shulgin

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

— Alexander Shulgin

My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic

— Bahamadia

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

— Jon Fishman

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

— Timothy Leary

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

— Genesis P-Orridge