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  • There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home. -- Ann Shulgin
  • Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination. -- Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. -- Terence McKenna
  • Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time. -- Laura Huxley
  • 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 to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound. -- Ram Dass
  • Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer. -- Terence McKenna
  • Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. -- Stanislav Grof
  • It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. -- Stanislav Grof
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe. -- Ray Manzarek
  • This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. -- Jerry Garcia
  • I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics. -- Terence McKenna
  • The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature. -- Terence McKenna
  • The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future. -- Terence McKenna
  • You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination. -- Terence McKenna
  • The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination. -- Terence McKenna
  • The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model. -- Terence McKenna
  • Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them. -- Rick Strassman
  • And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools. -- Terence McKenna
  • I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about. -- Ken Kesey
  • The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics. -- Terence McKenna
  • I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. -- Terence McKenna
  • Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. -- Ram Dass
  • With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture. -- Ralph Metzner
  • With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
  • I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient. -- Terence McKenna
  • '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
  • The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news. -- Terence McKenna
  • Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever? -- Lauren Kate
  • Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?" -- Lauren Kate
  • The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control. -- Terence McKenna
  • And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective. -- Terence McKenna
  • We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language. -- Terence McKenna
  • Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D. -- Timothy Leary
  • The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime. -- Sam Harris
  • The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully. -- Humphry Osmond
  • There may be a jump on electronic LSD with virtual reality, and the problem just with saying LSD, enough time has gone by that there is no distinction between psychedelics and other drugs. -- Howard Rheingold
  • Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality. -- Stanislav Grof
  • If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating. -- Terence McKenna
  • What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity. -- Terence McKenna
  • And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self. -- Terence McKenna
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