Psychedelic Quotes

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I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are… — Terence McKenna
Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in… — Terence McKenna
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the… — Terence McKenna
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — Terence McKenna
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions… — Terence McKenna
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions… — Terence McKenna
There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if… — Terence McKenna
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies… — Terence McKenna
LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your… — Timothy Leary
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA. — Timothy Leary
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to… — Timothy Leary
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the… — Timothy Leary
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. — Timothy Leary
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology. — Timothy Leary
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. — Timothy Leary
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for… — Timothy Leary
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in… — John C. Lilly
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. — Alexander Shulgin
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of… — Alexander Shulgin
These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This… — Stanislav Grof

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