It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too;… — Tim Harford 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
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney… — Jim David Copy Share Image
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 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 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
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna 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
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
