Psychedelic Experience Quotes

• Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Witty

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

  Bill Hicks

  Drug, Facts, Psychedelic

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• Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

  Steve Jobs

  Creating, Profound, Important

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• Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

  John Lennon

  Dmt, Mind, Relax

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• To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

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• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Magic, Bed

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• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Psychedelic, Absence

  "Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution". Book by Terence McKenna, February 1, 1992.

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• I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?

  Albert Hofmann

  Dream, Eye, Past

  Jonathan Ott, Albert Hofmann (1997). “Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History”

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• We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

  Terence McKenna

  Flames, Mind Blowing, Looks

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• You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

  Timothy Leary

  Change, Positive Thinking, Mind

  "Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People" by Darrin Zeer, (p. 52), 2000.

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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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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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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Taken, People

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Mind Blowing, Magic

  "Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Phones, Meditation

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• I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

  Timothy Leary

  Mutants, Great Beatles

  "Shout!" by Philip Norman, (p. 365), 1981.

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• I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

  Timothy Leary

  Race, Laughing, Mutants

  "Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles". Book by Philip Norman, p. 365, 1981.

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• Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Profound, Important, Acid

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• Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

  Timothy Leary

  Religious, Confused, Educational

  "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.

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• When you get the message, hang up the phone.

  Timothy Leary

  Phones, Messages, Psychedelic

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• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

  Timothy Leary

  Keys, Drug, Mind

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

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