Best 59 quotes in «psychedelic quotes» category

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

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

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.

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

FKA Twigs is stunning. She has beautiful contemporary and unique sound with an almost psychedelic vibe. Her music is great for the runway.

I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

If you want to have the right to have that conversation with your agent - "I know you sent it to me, I know you like it, but I just really think it's terrible" - you need to have the full details about script. You don't want to be in that situation where your agent says, "What about after the first 20 pages where it turns into a psychedelic musical?" And you're like "What? I thought it was an action-rom!

I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

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

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

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

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

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

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.

Memory training is great psychedelic training.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

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.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

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.

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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.

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

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.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

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

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

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

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