Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.
'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.
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.
There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.
I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
They call me the trippy king.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
