Quotessence
Home / Topics / Psychedelic Drugs Quotes

Psychedelic Drugs Quotes

Browse 35 quotes about Psychedelic Drugs.

Psychedelic Drugs Quotes

“As shortcuts to spiritual and transcendent experiences, psychedelics played an important role in human evolution and galvanized pre-historic ritualistic cultures. In modern times, banning psychedelic drugs has proven to be counterproductive. Just as banning sexual activity does not stop sexual desire, outlawing psychedelic drugs does nothing to suppress the innate human urge for transcendental experiences. Besides, prohibition rarely works as we saw with alcohol or marijuana. Despite their classification and the legal hurdles around working with Schedule I substances in the U.S., psychedelics have undergone something of a renaissance among researchers, and for good reason.”

Spiritual ExperienceHuman EvolutionPsychedelicsPsychedelic DrugsPsychedelic RenaissanceRitualisticTranscendent Experience
Book:The Intelligence Supernova: Essays on Cybernetic Transhumanism, The Simulation Singularity & The Syntellect Emergence
Create image

“Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.”

PersonsWishLevelsBehindsDrugAssumingDeeperPlanesThrownCourageousMotivatedMuseumsWholenessConstructsPsychicsFrontiersMundanePsychedelicArchetypeJungPsychedelic DrugsPsilocybin
Author:Terence McKenna
Create image

“It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.”

ThinkingFeelsTryingDifferentUsedLike YouDrugToolsConnectionsPlantMarijuanaBeneficialPsychedelicMushroomsPsychedelic DrugsOrganic LifePeyote
Author:Joe Rogan
Create image

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”

EnoughWalksSeeingSkyPossibilityDrugTownsSizeLegsHandleTeethGrandmotherKnivesFreakTwelveCircusAcidVegasLas VegasPsychedelicDowntownCrawlingHallucinationsFear And LoathingPsychedelic Drugs
Book:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Create image

“How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.”

KnowsWantStillsCharacterSpiritualChangedDrugDimensionsUsersPsychedelicDon't ChangeLsdCrooksPsychedelic DrugsSpiritual Dimensions
Author:Alexander Shulgin
Create image

“Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.”

KnowsMindHumansUseCareNightTurnsUnderstandingRichAchieveDrugResearchToolsTransformationExtraordinaryValuableHuman MindSaturdayTurn-onPsychedelicSaturday NightBangingEscapistsPsychedelic Drugs
Author:Alexander Shulgin
Create image

“There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.”

WorldWayMeanWealthQualityInformationMaterialsDrugBuiltInsightAccessCellsExplorationInteriorsPsychedelicPsychedelic Drugs
Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Create image

“Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. 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.”

IfsWayDoeEyeMeditationDrugMessagesInstrumentsPhonesVariousInsightGenuineMysticalTelephonesGlimpsePsychedelicTelescopesMicroscopesBiologistMaturedPsychedelic ExperienceHang UpsPsychedelic Drugs
Author:Alan Watts
Create image

“The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.”

WorldMayHas BeensUseSpiritualUsedPurposePathKeysDrugEnlightenmentYogaTraditionStonesUltimateIncludingAppropriatePsychedelicSpiritual PathStepping StonesPsychedelic Drugs
Author:Georg Feuerstein
Create image

“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”

IfsFirstsMayTwoUseValuesSpaceRiskDangerousWillingDrugMountainMereDelightClimbsExplorationJungleCollectingRocketsPsychedelicObjectionsDurationOuter SpaceAircraftPsychedelic Drugs
Author:Alan Watts
Create image

“If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.”

IfsFirstsUseEyeTodaySpiritualWishReligiousStudyCenturySeriousDrugTwentiesAstronomyCommitNakedQuestsPsychedelicUnnaturalTelescopesReligious LifeNaked EyesPsychedelic Drugs
Book:The Politics of Ecstasy
Create image