Lsd Quotes - Page 3

• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Ocean, Night

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• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

  Albert Hofmann

  Character, Reality, Emotional

  "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

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• Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child.

  Albert Hofmann

  Children, Use, Problem

  Albert Hofmann, Jonathan Ott (2013). “LSD: My Problem Child”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.

  Sam Andrew

  People, Coltrane

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• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

  Paul McCartney

  Home, School, Kids

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• LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.

  Albert Hofmann

  Pain, Essence, Drug

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

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• What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

  Terence McKenna

  People, World, Freaky

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• LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Gun, Sick, Intellectual

  "Charles Bukowski : Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. That means that you look for something, you have a certain plan, and then you find something else, different, that may nevertheless be useful.

  Albert Hofmann

  Mean, Discovery, Serendipity

  Source: conservatoryofmagicdotcom.wordpress.com

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• [In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

  Betsey Johnson

  1960s

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• Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Marijuana, Doe, Bills

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustement - mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized - make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill.

  Timothy Leary

  Air, Games, Perspective

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• Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?

  Frank Zappa

  Yuppies, People, Hatred

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• The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marijuana, Men, Medicine

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.205, City Lights Books

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• Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.

  Aldous Huxley

  Trying, Last Words

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• [LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

  John Lennon

  Years, Used, Thousand

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.52, Verso

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

  John Waters

  Home, Wish, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I'd had - the enhancing of senses, the way it made thought more interesting. In 1965, before it became illegal, I was introduced to LSD. I thought it was extraordinary.

  Amanda Feilding

  Interesting, Mystical, Similarity

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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

  Reality, Drug, Enough Time

  Source: medium.com

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

  Albert Hofmann

  Drug, Magic, Mexico

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

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• I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  People, Drug, Hallucinations

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