Psychedelic Experience Quotes

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

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.

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

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

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

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

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

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

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

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

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

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.