The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We thought that by this time that there would be LSD given in classes in college and you would study it and… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“The mind, unfettered by the constraints of the ego, dances with the cosmos in ecstatic union” — J.R. Damon 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
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world.… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It should not be taken in a hot climate. If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful, and you… — Neem Karoli Baba Copy Share Image
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high… — Terence McKenna 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
It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The effect of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the user's experience and behavior depends in part on his or her personality and genetic predisposition,… — John Rush Copy Share Image
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed… — 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
Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off. — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. — Grimes Copy Share Image
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — Terence McKenna 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
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
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