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
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
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed… — Duane Michals 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 danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm a Syd Barrett fan, and early Pink Floyd, and then about two things from the rest of their career. I don't… — Nick Hodgson Copy Share Image
Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience.… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic… — Cameron Adams Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put… — Stephen Gaskin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to… — Anton Newcombe 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
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
Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
