Psychedelic Quotes - Page 4

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  Gary Fisher

  War, Fall, Dark

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• To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sublime, Half, World

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• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Way, Facts

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• The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Atmosphere, Trying

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• The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Believe, Drug, Valuable

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

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• The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Wall, Ignorance

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

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• It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Life, Family

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• I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life Lesson, Years, Roles

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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• 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

  Religious, Eye, Drug

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Timothy Leary

  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Drug

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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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• 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

  Funny, War, Humor

  Bill Hicks at the "Just For Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1990.

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• Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Risk

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• Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

  Albert Hofmann

  Animal, Reality, Magnificence

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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• The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Speech, Social

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• I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

  Kary Mullis

  Stupid, Thinking, Might

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• There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Cells, Drug

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

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• My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

  Laura Huxley

  Today, Firsts, Stills

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• Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

  Terence McKenna

  Shamanism, Terror, Pastures

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• I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

  Ralph Metzner

  Life Changing, Believe, Events

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• 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

  Color, Play, Culture

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• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  Scott Putesky

  Noise, Youth, Folks

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• Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

  Stanislav Grof

  Training, Dying, Patient

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