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
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
“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 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
“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
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I feel like the inspiration is that I've managed to change my songwriting over the past couple of years and also production… — Marika Hackman 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
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
It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how… — Timothy Leary 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
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
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
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take… — Timothy Leary 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
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
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
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
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
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
You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out… — Maria Sabina Copy Share Image
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation. — Albert Hofmann 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 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
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