Able Quote by Ram Dass

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

— Frederick Lenz

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again…

— Jerry Garcia

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

— Terence McKenna

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

— Susan Schneider

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is…

— Terence McKenna

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're…

— Ann Shulgin

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…

— Stephen Gaskin

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

— Terence McKenna

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness…

— Anne Lamott

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

I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than…

— Stanislav Grof

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not…

— Bill Hicks