“Terence McKenna pointed out that "the profundity of [hallucinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
“A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate… — Cameron Adams Copy Share Image
“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed… — Ralph Metzner 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
“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
“I lost all contact with the surrounding world, which completely disappeared…The awareness of my everyday existence, my name, my whereabouts and my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“It’s a remarkable experience to ask yourself identity-crisis questions from a comic book movie with a mostly straight face, but I don’t… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
“The human psyche is not unitary; we all have different parts. This phenomenon is widely recognized, but in psychiatry the terminology and… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
“Integration is not a finish line; it is a returning, again and again, to the wisdom with new depth, compassion, and embodiment.” — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
“Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.' A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time –… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“My brief survey of stimulant aphrodisiacs would be incomplete were I to fail to include that most famous love drug of all… — Rick Doblin 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
“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
“I get caught in a hell-world of some sort. In the initial phase, I’m aware of and merging with a kind of… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“When San Pedro begins to affect your consciousness, it first feels as though a subtle wave of change occurs, and can best… — Jennifer Sodini 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
“If we recognize the power of entheogenic substances to open us to the universal truth and full dimension of human experience, and… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
