Alexander Shulgin Quotes

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• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body,…
• There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some…
• The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
• I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may…
• I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title.…
• Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
• The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic…
• It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
• ... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of…
• 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 it.
• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using…
• MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.
• How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and…
• Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all…
• How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas?…
• Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging…
• The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white…

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