Psychedelic quotes
92 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego."
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
"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."
"Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair."
"In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it."
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"To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality."
"Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic."
"Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind."
"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."
"Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide."
"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."
"Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism."
"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."
"'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."
"Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean."
"We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over."
"Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there."
"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."
"What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine."
"Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy."
"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."
"My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today."
"Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was."
"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."
