Howard Rheingold Quotes

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

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

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

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

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

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.

LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.