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Psychedelic Quotes by Terence McKenna
- There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine…
- We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
- Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
- LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same…
- I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what…
- I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis…
- I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication…
- Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
- Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...
- The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and…
- Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
- Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today…
- If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us…
- The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice…
- When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost…
- The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of…
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- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. — William S. Burroughs
- Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. — Lewis Carroll
- The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger… — Timothy Leary
- Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back… — Jerry Garcia
- To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else… — Jerry Garcia
- Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with… — Ray Manzarek
- There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells… — Alexander Shulgin
- I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing… — Ken Kesey
- There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle… — Terence McKenna
- The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. — Alexander Shulgin
- We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. — Terence McKenna