Psychedelic Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Communication, Ideas, Effort

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• The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?

  Rick Strassman

  Reading, Dmt, Volunteer

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• The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.

  Maria Sabina

  Evil, Giving, Sick

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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 quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

  Terence McKenna

  Opportunity, Community, Quality

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Drug, Cinema, Asks

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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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• 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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• Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Civilization

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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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• 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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• 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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• Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

  Klaus Schulze

  Guitar, Names, Trios

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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