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Psychedelic Quotes

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Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
Albert Hofmann

The advancement of humanity is mirrored by the growth and amplification of awareness.
Authors on Psychedelic Quotes: Terence McKenna Timothy Leary Albert Hofmann Stanislav Grof Alexander Shulgin Joe Rogan William Powell Alejandro Jodorowsky Ray Manzarek Adam Morris Scott Putesky D. M. Turner John Lennon Ralph Waldo Emerson Laura Huxley Alan I. Leshner Richard Evans Schultes Patti Smith Jensen Ackles Ram Dass Antonin Artaud Genesis P-Orridge Bill Hicks Robin Pecknold Paul Lockhart Kristoffer Rygg Arik Roper Mark Chadbourn Alasdair MacLean Steve Jobs Carl Palmer Humphry Osmond Satyananda Saraswati
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Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
Timothy Leary

Everyone holds a fragment of the answer. Nobody joins your life accidentally. Follow your intuition. Do something unexpected. Locate the rest.
3.
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
Albert Hofmann

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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
Albert Hofmann

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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.
Terence McKenna

6.
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Scott Putesky

7.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

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The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
Alexander Shulgin

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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.
Terence McKenna

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Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.
Satyananda Saraswati

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If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever
Joe Rogan

12.
I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
Jensen Ackles

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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
Terence McKenna

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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
Antonin Artaud

15.
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Timothy Leary

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Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
Alexander Shulgin

17.
To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.
Humphry Osmond

18.
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
Timothy Leary

19.
Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.
Ray Manzarek

20.
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.
Genesis P-Orridge

21.
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
William Powell

22.
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
Paul Lockhart

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Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
Terence McKenna

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To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
Terence McKenna

25.
When you get the message, hang up the phone.
Timothy Leary

26.
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.
Terence McKenna

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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.
Bill Hicks

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

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.
Terence McKenna

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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.
Steve Jobs

32.
The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
Richard Evans Schultes

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

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'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.
Terence McKenna

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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
Terence McKenna

36.
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
Terence McKenna

37.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
Terence McKenna

38.
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
John Lennon

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

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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.
Terence McKenna

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

42.
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
Stanislav Grof

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

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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.
Terence McKenna

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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.
Adam Lambert

46.
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
Stanislav Grof

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

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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.
Terence McKenna

49.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
Timothy Leary

50.
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
Kristoffer Rygg