Top 1200 Psychedelic Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

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

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

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

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

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

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

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

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

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

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

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

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

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

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

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

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

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

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

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

Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

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

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

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.

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

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

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

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

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

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

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

I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some kind of crazy mindblowing psychedelia thing happening, but actually, it was very quiet, and I didn't have any hallucinations at all. Nothing changed, except that suddenly I could hear the voice of my conscience, which I didn't ever think of as being a real voice. And ever since having that experience, I've had that voice in my head and followed it occasionally.

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.

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

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

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

Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it's the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

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

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.