Chemistry Quote by Ann Shulgin

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose…

— Alexander Shulgin

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

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

— Terence McKenna

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out…

— Alexander Shulgin

A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention,…

— Frederick Lenz

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're…

— Ann Shulgin

Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas…

— Terence McKenna

With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no…

— Gary Fisher

This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity,…

— Terence McKenna

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

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in…

— Terence McKenna