Quote by Sam Harris

“I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I’ve always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled with insights…

— Rita Golden Gelman

“The question that we need to address is this: What relevance do these ancient traditions have to the experience of a modern adolescent growing…

— Rick Doblin

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into…

— Terence McKenna

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

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

“The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

— 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

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological…

— Terence McKenna

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

— Stanislav Grof

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

— Terence McKenna

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want…

— Terence McKenna