Psychedelic Quotes · Page 6

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

— Terence McKenna

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

— Bryan Cranston

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did…

— Carl Palmer

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

— Albert Hofmann

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural…

— Albert Hofmann

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you…

— Ray Manzarek

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

— Terence McKenna

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

— Terence McKenna

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably…

— Rick Strassman

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's…

— Terence McKenna

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put…

— Terence McKenna

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people…

— Terence McKenna

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of…

— Steve Jobs

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician.…

— Wayne Coyne

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our…

— Stanislav Grof

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the…

— Terence McKenna

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered…

— Alan Moore

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that…

— Terence McKenna

“I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual…

— Albert Hofmann

If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me,…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“The effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the user's experience and behavior depends in part on his or her personality and genetic predisposition,…

— John Rush

Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But…

— Terence McKenna

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed…

— Terence McKenna

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

— Stanislav Grof

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

— Timothy Leary

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

— Albert Hofmann

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

— John Waters

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it…

— Ayelet Waldman

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

— Terence McKenna

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

— Joey Chestnut

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

— Terence McKenna

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

— Veronique Vienne

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

— Arik Roper

Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.

— Rick Strassman

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

— Laura Huxley

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

— Dylan Moran

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

— Terence McKenna