Change Quote by Ralph Metzner

“Stereotypes become extinct faster than there appear new impressions concerning our reality, culture and consciousness...”

— Mykyta Isagulov

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you…

— Terence McKenna

“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.”

— Patti Smith

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…

— Terence McKenna

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

— Ira Glass

There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just…

— Ray Allen

“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering, that's the…

— Jessa Crispin

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

— Ralph Metzner

The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

— Ralph Metzner

I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one,…

— Ralph Metzner

Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,

— Albert Hofmann

“Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into…

— Thomas Pynchon

In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

— Albert Hofmann

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

— John Waters

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

— Betsey Johnson