Psychedelic Quotes

“Once I took a hero's dose of LSD, and I could see the molecules in the air. I knew then that I didn't need to do it anymore.”

“To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else.”

“LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If a person is treated with LSD, he sees himself as he really is.”

“I wanted to take people to another place. I wanted to take them on a trip.”

“We are psychedelic, which is a state of mind, not a type of music.”

“We were trying to break down the walls of the mind.”

“Psychedelic music was a wonderful, colorful, and creative time.”

“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.”

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

“The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products.”

“I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points... I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it'.”

“The dissolution of the everyday self is a hallmark of the mystical experience.”

“The trip is not on the drug, it’s in the mind.”

“Ego death is not the annihilation of the self, but its relocation, from the center of the world to a position somewhere in the bleachers.”

“I've always been drawn to the more psychedelic side of things.”

“Feed your head.”

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.”