Quotes About Mind-altering

What is striking about this whole line of clinical research is the premise that it is not the pharmacological effect of the drug itself but the kind of mental experience it occasions—involving the temporary dissolution of one's ego—that may be the key to changing one's mind.

Psychedelics are for those of us who aren't so innately gifted.

Psychedelic drugs cause panic and temporary insanity in people who have not taken them.

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

the experience of psychedelics is powerfully influenced by one's expectation; no other class of drugs are more suggestible in their effects.

whenever we hired someone, they would receive a couple of LSD sessions as part of their training

changing the course of history or, in a great many more cases, the course of their own lives. "No doubt" is the key. I can think of a couple of ways to account for such a phenomenon, neither entirely satisfying. The most straightforward and yet hardest to accept explanation is that it's simply true: the altered state of consciousness has opened the person up to a truth that the rest of us, imprisoned in ordinary waking consciousness, simply cannot see.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such. - As birds do? - No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed.

in--whoever owned this house before him, they must have been colorblind, or into hallucinogenic drugs, or both.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

One of the side effects of good psychedelics is you can't remember how much you took.

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.

It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe.

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

If what we took to be objective reality was so fragile that it could be swept away by 400 milligrams of mescaline, then perhaps the vitalists who had argued that the brain was merely a mechanism to stabilize an anarchic world were correct. Perhaps the notion of objective reality was a paradox.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

Salvia divinorum

Reading fiction, I see through the prism of another person's understanding; reading everything else, I am travelling--I am travelling in the way that I still can: new sights, new experiences. I am reminded sometimes of the intensity of childhood reading, that absolute absorption when the very ability to read was a heady new gain, the gateway to a different place, to a parallel universe you hadn't known was there. The one entirely benign mind-altering drug.

She likes to play with the mind-altering shit. She's a dark one, that Arwen.