#psychedelic

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

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

#easy #easy access #energy #had #i

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#became #because #complicated #experimentation #more

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#culture #everything #had #handmade #i