Altered Quote by Susan Schneider

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I…

— Terence McKenna

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what…

— 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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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 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

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

— Terence McKenna

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able…

— Ram Dass

I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of…

— Larkin Grimm