Psychedelics Quotes

(Quote from 2001): I`ve been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was (really) an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn`t crawling around drunk on the floor.

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.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

I volunteered for an LSD session. It was such a powerful opening of my own unconscious that I became more interested in psychedelics than in psychoanalysis.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

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

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

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

I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody`s going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they`re about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they`re missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It`s just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, `Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.` The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.