#psyched

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#creativity #experience #psychedelics #visionary #art

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

— Terence McKenna

#life #psychedelics #shamanism #slavery #experience

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#psychedelics #love

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

— Timothy Leary

#politicians #psychedelics #squares #straights #behavior

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair. ↗

— Paula Cole

#had #hair #i #psyched #were

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#compared #dead #grateful #grateful dead #i

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experiences #happen #having #people #phenomenon

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

— Stanislav Grof

#invaluable #patients #psychedelic #reported #sessions

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experienced #feel #many #much #open

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

— Stanislav Grof

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