Psychedelic Quotes - Page 12

• The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

  Timothy Leary

  Discovery, Alcohol, Drug

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• I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

  Kristoffer Rygg

  Style, Albums, Obscure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human
  being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

  Terence McKenna

  Facts, Astronaut, Collectivity

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• No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended.

  Mark Chadbourn

  Issues, Drug, Mystery

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• Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Rocks, West

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

  Timothy Leary

  Dna, Nervous, Missions

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• The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

  Timothy Leary

  Revolution, Nervous, Possibility

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• I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.

  Adam Lambert

  Clouds, Certain, Wanted

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• I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.

  Tamaryn

  Style, Together, Drones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Animal, Past

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• You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

  Timothy Leary

  Drug, Brain, Computer

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• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

  Dennis McKenna

  Faces, Cups, Lips

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• I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

  "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

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• Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

  Timothy Leary

  Taken, Loss, Reality

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• The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Madness, Danger

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• The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

  Terence McKenna

  Data, Expectations, Bigger

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• It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.

  Mike Romano

  Nice, Rocks, People

  Source: auralstates.com

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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, Bursting, Psychedelic Experience

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• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

  Terence McKenna

  Done, Return, Feminine

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• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

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• The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Journey, Civilization, Mind

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• What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

  Terence McKenna

  Church, Attention, Able

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