The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture. — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it's the same with seeing as well. I always thought that… — Robyn Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
“Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.' A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time –… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about… — Dom Thomas Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna pointed out that "the profundity of [hallucinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music, so I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that… — Claudio Naranjo Copy Share Image
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I’ve always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled… — Rita Golden Gelman Copy Share Image
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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