Psychedelic Quotes

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

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.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

Memory training is great psychedelic training.

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.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

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.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.