Psychedelic Quotes

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

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.

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.

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

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

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

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

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

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

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

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

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

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

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

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

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.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

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

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.

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?

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

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.

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.

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.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.