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• I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, People, Imagination

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Change, Dance

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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, Birthright

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• What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Connections, World

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• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Snow, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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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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• In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Peyote, Consciousness

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• You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !

  Alex Grey

  Creativity, Eye, Forever

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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, Absence, Shamanism

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

  Timothy Leary

  Phones, Messages, Hang Ups

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• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

  Ray Manzarek

  Creative, Substance, Spirit

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• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

  Terence McKenna

  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

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

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• Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic Experience, Involved

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• Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

  William Powell

  Believe, Bananas, Lasting

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, chapter one, "Drugs", 1971.

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• The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Emotional, Mind Blowing

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• The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

  Timothy Leary

  Keys, Brain, Source

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.3, Ronin Publishing

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• Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Telepathy

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• I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.

  Ken Kesey

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  BBC documentary "The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD", 1987.

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• The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Path, Kind

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• 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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• 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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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  Terence McKenna

  Stars, Loneliness, Heart

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

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• Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Night, Drug, Understanding

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