Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Metzner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Ralph Metzner.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Ralph Metzner was a German-born American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president.

American - Psychologist | Born: May 18, 1936

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The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

Ralph Metzner

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

Ralph Metzner

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

Ralph Metzner

Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.

Ralph Metzner

I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

Ralph Metzner

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Metzner

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