Desire Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures…

— Rick Doblin

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience.…

— Rick Doblin

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

— Terence McKenna

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…

— Ray Manzarek

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

— Stanislav Grof

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the…

— Rick Strassman

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of…

— Alan Watts

Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in…

— Timothy Leary

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the…

— Terence McKenna