Awareness Quote by Stanislav Grof

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

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience.…

— Rick Doblin

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

— Terence McKenna

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

— Terence McKenna

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator,…

— Ray Manzarek

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

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

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of…

— Alan Watts

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the…

— Terence McKenna

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

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

— Terence McKenna