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
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence… — Mark Chadbourn Copy Share Image
Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but… — Mike Romano 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
It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Perspective shifted on why it must 'hurt to heal', and a series of questions kept coming to mind. I found myself wondering… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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
I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me,… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a… — 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
There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
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
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
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
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of… — 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 whole other world that LSD opened your mind to existed only in the moment itself - Now - and any attempt… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
“But if they don’t try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives, I will wonder whether… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work,… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image