Psychedelic quotes
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"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."
"The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness."
"In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade."
"The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech."
"Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work."
"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."
"Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience."
"Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience."
"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."
"Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality."
"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."
"If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me, I know you like it, but I just really think it's terrible" - you need to have the full details about script. You don't want to be in that situation where your agent says, "What about after the first 20 pages where it turns into a psychedelic musical?" And you're like "What? I thought it was an action-rom!""
