Psychedelic Drugs Quotes - Page 2

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

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Madness

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• My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

  Susan Schneider

  Reality, Drug, Perception

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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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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• The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Believe, Drug, Psychedelic

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Reality, Mirrors, Doors

  Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. (1997). “Lucid Waking: Mindfulness and the Spiritual Potential of Humanity”, p.8, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Giving

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• It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.

  Joe Rogan

  Marijuana, Thinking, Mushrooms

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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