Top 252 Psychedelic Quotes & Sayings

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

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

It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.

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

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

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.

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about nothing, you know? But there's nothing more psychedelic than kids is there? Childhood is like being on acid most of the time anyway.

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

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

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

Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

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

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

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

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

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.

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

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

I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.

The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

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

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

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.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

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

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

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

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

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

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

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

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

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

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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

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

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

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

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

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

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

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

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

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

The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

I used to wear this cowboy outfit. I wouldn't take off. It was ridiculous. My mum was like, 'You've got to take that off sometime,' and I was like, 'No way, this is it.' It was the '70s - it was turquoise and yellow, really psychedelic colors. I wanted to be a psychedelic cowboy.

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

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

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