Alcohol Quote by William S. Burroughs

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it…

— Albert Hofmann

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

I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as…

— Terence McKenna

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

— John E. Sarno

“In addition to localized neural networks, hallucinogenic drugs have been documented to trigger such preternatural experiences, such as the sense of floating and flying…

— Michael Shermer

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain…

— William S. Burroughs

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

— George Carlin

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they…

— Terence McKenna

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

— Marianne Faithfull

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and…

— Terence McKenna

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the…

— Timothy Leary

I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors…

— Arthur Koestler