Psychedelic Quotes
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Psychedelic Quotes & Sayings
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LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
— Stanislav Grof
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
— Daisy Berkowitz
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
I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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
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
Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
— Terence McKenna
To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic.
— Humphry Osmond
Memory training is great psychedelic training.
— Terence McKenna
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
— Terence McKenna
Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.
— Satyananda Saraswati
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
— Terence McKenna
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.
— Stanislav Grof
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
— Timothy Leary
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
— Timothy Leary
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
— Terence McKenna
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
— Terence McKenna
Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
— Alexander Shulgin
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
— Terence McKenna
There is no such thing as recreational drug use.
— Alan I. Leshner
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
— Terence McKenna
The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
— 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
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
— Terence McKenna
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
— Terence McKenna
When you get the message, hang up the phone.
— Timothy Leary
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
— Terence McKenna
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
— Terence McKenna
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
— Terence McKenna
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
— Terence McKenna
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
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
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
— Terence McKenna
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
— Bryan Cranston
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
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
— Paul Lockhart
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
Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
— 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
My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.
— Susan Schneider
Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.
— David R. Martin
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
— Timothy Leary
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).
— Patti Smith
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
— Timothy Leary
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
Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
— Antonin Artaud
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
— Timothy Leary
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
— Terence McKenna
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
— Terence McKenna
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
— Terence McKenna
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
— Terence McKenna
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.
— Stanislav Grof
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
— Timothy Leary
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
— Terence McKenna
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
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
— Terence McKenna
The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
— Richard Evans Schultes
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
— Terence McKenna
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me — Pink Floyd
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me — Pink Floyd
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
— 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
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
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
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.
— Genesis P-Orridge
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
— Alexander Shulgin
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
— Terence McKenna