Believe Quote by Bill Maher

I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience…

— Dennis McKenna

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

— Stanislav Grof

“High levels of frequency do not necessarily lead you to spiritual experiences. In fact, high levels of frequency tear down the very illusion that…

— Richard Rudd

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

— Stanislav Grof

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

“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain them away.…

— Sabina Magliocco

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest…

— Dennis McKenna

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a…

— Terence McKenna

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of…

— Terence McKenna

I do think that taking these sort of natural mind-opening and altering drugs does have an effect. Doors and windows that you didn't even…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears…

— Terence McKenna

“Neuroscientist David Comings drew out the larger implications of such hallucinations for the relationship between our rational and spiritual brains: The psychedelic drugs like…

— Michael Shermer