“LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” HumansImportantConsciousnessGreat ThingsMaking MoneyStreamsAcidPsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessLsdMy Biography Author:Steve Jobs
“Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.” Has BeensStatesUseConsciousnessTechnologyPlantSubstanceRitualPsychedelicStates Of Consciousness Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.” SchoolReadingFoundConsciousnessSexualityExplorationEnd TimesBreakthroughPsychedelicRamaPsychedelic ExperienceLoving Friends Author:Frederick Lenz
“His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.” WayHumansLooksLongStillsHelpingPoliticalConsciousnessAttitudeStruggleHairDrugClothesInfiniteRegionsActivistChemicalsExploringCostumesHippiePsychedelicHuman ConsciousnessWithering Author:Tom Wolfe
“Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.” RealityFilmConsciousnessOrdinaryArgumentFar AwayRobotsPsychedelicNiagara Author:Terence McKenna
“We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.” HumansSelfCultureHuman BeingsConsciousnessWrittenIdentityPlanetsExpressionBirthToolsCaringIntellectSexualityRecognitionDimensionsPsychedelicSelf ExpressionPsychedelic ExperienceNational Identity Author:Terence McKenna
“The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.” MindMeanIdeasOrderConsciousnessMysteryCivilizationDrugRelateComplexitySomething NewRelevantPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna
“Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.” WorldMeanArtDoneConsciousnessRevolutionChanging The WorldSlogansHippiePsychedelic Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.” MenMatterPhilosophyDreamHumorTodayFunnyYoungLife IsUniverseEnergyImaginationConsciousnessComedyMediaHumourDrugWittyWeatherYoung ManLife And DeathTomsVibrationsAcidPsychedelicLife DeathLsdPsychedelic ExperienceStream Of ConsciousnessHallucinogensWeathermenMatter And EnergyTrippy Author:Bill Hicks