Psychedelic Quotes - Page 14

• The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

  Terence McKenna

  Moments, Reason, Radical

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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, Standing Out, Form

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• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

  Terence McKenna

  Beautiful, Moving, Style

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• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Ordinary, Robots

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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, Driven

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• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  Terence McKenna

  Vocabulary, Long, People

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• I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Reality, Long Ago

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever, right on, radicals and world changers, social peaceniks perhaps, with a Buddhist spiritual veneer.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Buddhist, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Art, Hippie, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a Syd Barrett fan, and early Pink Floyd, and then about two things from the rest of their career. I don't like them, really. I mean, I like the psychedelic stuff. I listen to the first albums, and even on those, they go off and off and off. Songs that are 20 minutes long. I don't like long songs.

  Nick Hodgson

  Song, Mean, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Perfect, Drug, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film soundtrack or something else where I could take the rest of the band with me. I really don't think bands should make more than five records anyway. In fact, five is one too many. We'll have to see how it pans out.

  Alasdair MacLean

  Thinking, Film, Situation

  "The Clientele's Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips". Interview with Maggie Serota, music.avclub.com. February 21, 2010.

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