It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind,… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the… — Terence McKenna 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
The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in… — Terence McKenna 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
LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — Terence McKenna 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
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John… — Terence McKenna 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
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 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
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
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in… — Terence McKenna 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
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
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
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
![“I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.” quote by Adam Lambert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82e/adam-lambert-2417_certain_i-was-looking-for-something-and-i-wasn-t_1401749.jpg)
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