The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.
I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.
And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
There is no such thing as recreational drug use.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.