Psychedelic Quotes - Page 7

• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Shadow, Groups

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• Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

  Terence McKenna

  Boundaries, Compounds, Dissolving

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• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

  Terence McKenna

  States, Description, Left

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• I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

  Susan Schneider

  Reality, Drug, Perception

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.

  Germaine Greer

  Lying, Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Imagination, Mind

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• At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Vision, Peers

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Evolution, Responsible

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• Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.

  Richard Lloyd

  Thinking, Over You, Perception

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  Terence McKenna

  Caring, Self, Expression

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• The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Surrender, Plant

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• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Garden, Heaven

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• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  Terence McKenna

  Differences, Dying, Pun

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• Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Beautiful, Shoes, Dancing

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.201, Conari Press

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• I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

  Jon Fishman

  Grateful, Mean, People

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• 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

  Literature, Natural, Synthetic

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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Should, Threshold, Ambiguity

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• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Should, Fraud

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• 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

  Want, Centerpieces, Destined

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• Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

  Brad Warner

  Motor Vehicles, Car, Drug

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Mind, Desert

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• When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT.
  Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT.
  As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.

  Rick Strassman

  Dmt, Molecules, Body

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• How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Character, Drug

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• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Sexuality, Built

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