Quotes About Psychedelic Drugs

#1. 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.

Alan W. Watts

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

Terence McKenna

#3. 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

#4. It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Alexander Shulgin

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

Timothy Leary

#6. You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

Timothy Leary

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

Susan Schneider

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

Terence McKenna

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

Alexander Shulgin

#10. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Terence McKenna

#12. I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#13. A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

Georg Feuerstein

#15. The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

Timothy Leary

#16. This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

Terence McKenna

#17. I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

Terence McKenna

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

Hunter S. Thompson

#19. There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

Alan I. Leshner

#20. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard

#21. 'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

Terence McKenna

#22. Let's talk when you're ready." Hawke's grin deepened. "In the meantime, get a room.

Nalini Singh

#23. It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

Bill Kreutzmann

#24. Although Carroll is now something of an iconic figure for psychedelic drug users, there is only the tiniest shred of evidence that he ever took laudanum, morphine, cocaine, magic mushrooms or indeed that he sampled any mind-altering drugs at all.

Jenny Woolf

#25. I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The Mystery is in the Body and the way the Body Works itself into Nature.

Terence McKenna

#26. Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

Satyananda Saraswati

#27. They are the fuga bidone, Christopher. They broke away. They're too far
ahead to reel in," Luca whispered, his voice breaking into the wind that licked
the mountain top. "We are the peloton."

"We'll see them again at the finish line.

P.D. Singer

#28. I've been married, divorced; I've been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret ... all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.

Niecy Nash

#29. Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Kate DiCamillo

#30. Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.

Peter Blegvad

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

Timothy Leary

#32. New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

Bill Maher