Psychedelics Quotes
35 quotes by 17 authors
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
— Terence McKenna
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
— Stanislav Grof
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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
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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 or…
— Dennis McKenna
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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
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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
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The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
— Ralph Metzner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
— Stanislav Grof
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Psychedelics Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 35 Psychedelics Quotes as follows: