Psychedelics Quotes

35 quotes by 17 authors

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — 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 value.… — Gary Fisher
I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what… — Terence McKenna
I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used… — Dennis Hopper
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the… — Stanislav Grof
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. — Stanislav Grof
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch… — Terence McKenna
No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or… — Dennis McKenna
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news. — Terence McKenna
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
The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture. — Ralph Metzner
Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience. This… — Rick Doblin
I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that… — Graham Hancock
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
As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. — Stanislav Grof
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. — Stanislav Grof
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the… — Timothy Leary
I suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put you in communication… — Stephen Gaskin
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… — 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

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