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LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
Albert Hofmann
There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.
Teilhard de Chardin
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exultation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up [the] next morning with a clear head and a undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and the earth would become paradise.
Aldous Huxley
My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.
Laura Huxley
Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don’t know who should be entrusted with the toolbox – priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty.
Laura Archera Huxley
Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.
Laura Archera Huxley
Psychedelics make you aware that everything is alive, sacred, and connected.I presume and hope that everybody will ultimately come to that conclusion; it cannot possibly be the privilege of the few. But i is everyone’s right to first be given the basic necessities of life: nourishment, safety, and respect. After this, the psychedelic experience can become available.
Laura Archera Huxley
The effect of consciousness-expanding drugs will be to transform our concepts of human nature, of human potentialities, of existence. The game is about to be changed, ladies and gentlemen ... Theses possibilities naturally threaten every branch of the establishment. The dangers of external change appear to frighten us less than the peril of internal change. LSD is more frighening than the Bomb!
Leary and Alpert, 1962
Those of us who are committed to the preservation of of life in all ist staggering diversity and beauty have only the same resources we've always had: the capacity to move, and help each other to move, inot expanded, awakened consciousness; the purity and strengthof our intention, and the courage and creativity to realize the vision that "another world is possible".
Ralph Metzner
Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that everything is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.
Andrew Weil
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.
Alexander T. Shulgin
There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.
Ann Shulgin
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.
Jonathan Ott
What did the Neanderthals know about hallucinogenic plants? Well, for example, in Iraq there’s a Neanderthal site, which dates to about eighty to or one hundred thousand years ago. When they excavated this site, they identified eight plants – seven of which are still used in the sam area for medicinal purposes, including Ephedra.
Peter T. Furst
I believe that psychedelics used wisely would enable us an individuals and collectively as a society to develop a sense of core identity that transcended divisive distinctions based on national origin, religion, race, gender, class and political orientation.
Rick Doblin
Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren’t for Leary's popularizing them.
Rick Strassman
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Timothy Leary
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
Terence McKenna
Consciousness is what we're in need of to avoid running off the cliff into armageddon. If the claim that these drugs expand consciousness, promote empathy, and allow deeper insights into our problems has any validity at all, it should be explored very carefully and very thouroughly.
Terence McKenna
Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.
Dennis McKenna
A particularly interesting instance of psychedelic-assisted problem solving comes from Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis and it exemplifies a different kind of multistate intelligence when he invented the Polymerase Chain Reaction Technique.
Thomas B. Roberts
There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.
Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Plant communication is likely to be as complex as within a brain.
Anthony Trewavas, Biologist
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.
Thaddeus Golas
Enlightenment is any experience of expanding our consciousness beyond its present limits. We could also say that perfect enlightenment is realizing that we have no limits at all, and that the entire universe is alive.
Thaddeus Golas
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
Senator Robert Kennedy, 1966
When God takes LSD, does he see people?
American comedian Steven Wright
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call
it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it,
parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms
of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without
suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at
a touch they are there in all their completeness ... No account of
the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other
forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the
question ...
William James (1902)
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and your find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormand forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far then you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
Whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisiacal, beyond what our imagination can conceive.
Joseph Priestley, chemist, philosopher (1733 - 1804)
Shamans understand that the human brain is modeled after the
celestial vault and the human mind functions according to the stars,
which are the ventricles and sensoria of the cosmic brain ... there exists a close relationship between astronomical observations,
cosmological speculations, and drug-induced trance states.”
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that everything is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.
Andrew Weil
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive
substances.
Andrew Weil
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances
is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to
transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with
the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however
they phrase it in their terms.
Andrew Weil
Drugs don’t have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual
potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that
direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that
has helped many people.
Andrew Weil
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