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Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. -- Timothy Leary
Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean. -- Terence McKenna
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree. -- Terence McKenna
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. -- John Lennon
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
Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it. -- Alexander Shulgin
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself. -- Georg Feuerstein
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care. -- Norman Reedus
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. -- Ray Manzarek
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever, right on, radicals and world changers, social peaceniks perhaps, with a Buddhist spiritual veneer. -- Surya Das
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it. -- Terence McKenna
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path. -- Georg Feuerstein
I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The Mystery is in the Body and the way the Body Works itself into Nature. -- Terence McKenna
If God dropped acid, would he see people? -- Steven Wright
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. -- Daisy Berkowitz
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic. -- Genesis P-Orridge
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. -- Bob Marley
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. -- Timothy Leary
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan. -- Terence McKenna
To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic. -- Humphry Osmond
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. -- Keith Richards
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness. -- Terence McKenna
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. -- Terence McKenna
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. -- Albert Einstein
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness. -- Alex Grey
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. -- Terence McKenna
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. -- Alan Watts
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?' -- Jerry Garcia
I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it. -- Bill Hicks
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. -- Jerry Garcia
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. -- Terence McKenna
Memory training is great psychedelic training. -- Terence McKenna
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. -- Daisy Berkowitz
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man. -- Bryan Cranston
I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to. -- Action Bronson
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying. -- Stanislav Grof
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. -- Jon Fishman
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. -- Grimes
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
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. -- Ric Ocasek
FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway. -- Chelsea Leyland
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more. -- Ken Kesey
I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. -- Eugene Chadbourne
Ever since Willie Nelson brought rednecks into an alliance with hippies back in the psychedelic '70s, Austin has milked its quirky libertarian spirit for a worldwide bonanza of free publicity. -- Douglas Brinkley
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. -- King Tuff
I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit. -- Daniel Radcliffe
When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this. -- Chris Robinson
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko. -- Alan Moore
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new. -- Jerry Saltz
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth. -- John Van Hamersveld
I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic -- Lykke Li
My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today. -- Laura Huxley
If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever -- Joe Rogan
I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream. -- Terence McKenna
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism. -- Terence McKenna
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up. -- Timothy Leary
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. -- Paul Lockhart
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions. -- Terence McKenna
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. -- Terence McKenna
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). -- Patti Smith
This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks. -- Noel Fielding
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended. -- Terence McKenna
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. -- Terence McKenna
My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me. -- Susan Schneider
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers. -- Timothy Leary
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made. -- Terence McKenna
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. -- Terence McKenna
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. -- Terence McKenna
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. -- Terence McKenna
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. -- Timothy Leary
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences. -- Kary Mullis
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time. -- Terence McKenna
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade. -- Terence McKenna
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. -- Terence McKenna
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. -- Terence McKenna
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. -- Stanislav Grof
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated. -- Terence McKenna
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic. -- William Powell
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. -- Alexander Shulgin
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. -- Arik Roper
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it. -- Terence McKenna
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. -- Terence McKenna
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it. -- Terence McKenna
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. -- Terence McKenna
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. -- Terence McKenna
My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic -- Bahamadia
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. -- Terence McKenna
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. -- Terence McKenna
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had. -- Robin Pecknold
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style. -- Kristoffer Rygg
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century. -- Terence McKenna
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. -- Terence McKenna
It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. -- Alexander Shulgin
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position. -- Terence McKenna
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening. -- Terence McKenna
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed. -- Pete Townshend
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music. -- Klaus Schulze
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well. -- Carl Palmer
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place. -- Terence McKenna
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process. -- Terence McKenna
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind. -- Terence McKenna
What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do. -- Brian Chippendale
You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors. -- Ray Manzarek
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense. -- Terence McKenna
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available. -- Terence McKenna
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment. -- Timothy Leary
This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom. -- Suzanne Brockmann
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously. -- Terence McKenna
That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth. -- Bill Hicks
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is. -- Terence McKenna
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of. -- Terence McKenna

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