Psychedelic Experience Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

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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, Psychedelic, Surrender

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• The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Nature, Dmt

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Drug, Getting High

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Dmt

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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, Psychedelic, Should

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

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

  Terence McKenna

  Losing Control, Views, Important

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.50, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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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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• We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspiration, Self, Expression

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• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Despair, Psychedelic

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• The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

  Robin Pecknold

  Mind, Sound, Psychedelic

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• I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Psychedelic, Bursting

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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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• What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Thinking, Perspective

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• It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Facts, Hallucinogens

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• The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Yoga, Important

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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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• I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Circles, Landscape

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• Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Cousin, Degrees

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.15, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Mind, Psychedelic

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• I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Organization, Mind

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• Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Psychedelic, Standing Out

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