"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."
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"My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today."
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"Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was."
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"What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is."
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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."
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"Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century."
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"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?"
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"The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it."
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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."
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"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."
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"By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence."
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"The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations."
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"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."
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"Memory training is great psychedelic training."
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"What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things."
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"This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience."
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"There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them."
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"The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip."
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"Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion."
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