Psychedelic Quotes - Page 5

• Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Profound, Important, Acid

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• I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Hopeful, World

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• The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Degrees, Density, Matter

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• Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Sight, Our Society, Facts

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• There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

  Sidney Cohen

  Thinking, Circles, Insanity

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• Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

  Satyananda Saraswati

  Drug, Taste, Transcendental

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• It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

  Ken Kesey

  Moving On, Next Steps, Moved On

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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• Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Rich, Knows

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• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Training

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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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• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Involvement, Precursor

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• I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

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• There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

  Alan I. Leshner

  Drug Use, Recreational Drugs, Drug

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• One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Library, Enough

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• We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Evolution, Language

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• No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

  Dennis McKenna

  Religious, Courage, Taken

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• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ass like Jurassic

  Bahamadia

  Hip Hop, Parks, Flow

  Song: Word Play, Album: Kollage

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• So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions

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• The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

  Timothy Leary

  Reality, Brain, Robots

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.58, Ronin Publishing

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• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Knowledge, Suggestions

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• I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?

  Albert Hofmann

  Dream, Eye, Past

  Jonathan Ott, Albert Hofmann (1997). “Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History”

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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