Psychedelic quotes
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
-- Abel Ferrara -
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 -
There is no such thing as recreational drug use.
-- Alan I. Leshner -
Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
-- Albert Hofmann -
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I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
-- Alexander Shulgin -
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 -
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And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.
-- D. M. Turner -
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.
-- Genesis P-Orridge -
To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic.
-- Humphry Osmond -
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'
-- Jerry Garcia -
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If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever
-- Joe Rogan -
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
-- John Lennon -
I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic
-- Lykke Li -
No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended.
-- Mark Chadbourn -
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.
-- Paul Lockhart -
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 -
The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
-- Richard Evans Schultes -
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.
-- Robin Pecknold -
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Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.
-- Satyananda Saraswati -
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
-- Scott Putesky -
It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
-- Stanislav Grof -
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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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 -
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
-- Terence McKenna -
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
-- Terence McKenna -
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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To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
-- Terence McKenna -
Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.
-- William Powell -
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
-- William S. Burroughs -
We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film soundtrack or something else where I could take the rest of the band with me. I really don't think bands should make more than five records anyway. In fact, five is one too many. We'll have to see how it pans out.
-- Alasdair MacLean -
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I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
-- Arik Roper -
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
-- Carl Palmer -
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!"
-- Henry Lloyd-Hughes -
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 -
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I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.
-- Adam Morris -
To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.
-- Humphry Osmond -
My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.
-- Laura Huxley
