Ancient Quote by Terence McKenna

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

— Stanislav Grof

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

— Terence McKenna

A whole host of things that we now know are drugs turn out to be plant alkaloids.

— Gregory Petsko

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the…

— Terence McKenna

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers;…

— William S. Burroughs

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

— Salvador Dali

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the…

— Rick Strassman

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures…

— Rick Doblin

The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering…

— Paul Stamets

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and…

— William S. Burroughs

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize…

— Graham Hancock

Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all…

— Mick Jagger