Ann Shulgin Quotes

• You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.

  Ann Shulgin

  Conscious, Subconscious, Universe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.

  Ann Shulgin

  Home, Helping, Coming Home

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Finding Yourself

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.

  Ann Shulgin

  Self, People, Hatred

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• MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

  Ann Shulgin

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Drug

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• Every person's body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else. There's no way to tell what the perfect psychedelic drug would be, because it would be perfect for only you.

  Ann Shulgin

  Perfect, Drug, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.

  Ann Shulgin

  School, Government, Police

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• If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

  Ann Shulgin

  Men, Extraordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.

  Ann Shulgin

  Spiritual, Party, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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