Psychedelic Quotes - Page 2

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

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.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

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.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

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

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

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.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.