Access Quote by Stanislav Grof

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise…

— Sam Harris

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Susan Schneider

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

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

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

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

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

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

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

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

— Terence McKenna