'"There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature."

-Alexander Shulgin

"I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world

became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief;

they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing.

Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the

eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing

kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation,

which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared.

what had caused this condition?"

- Dr. Albert Hofmann - Laboratory Notes (1943)

"Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. . . . There was to my knowledge no other known substance that evoked such profound psychic effects in such extremely low doses, that caused such dramatic changes in human consciousness and our experience of the inner and outer world."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"Under the influence of DMT, the world becomes an Arabian labyrinth, a palace, a more than possible Martian jewel, vast with motifs that flood the gaping mind with complex and wordless awe. Color and the sense of a reality-unlocking secret nearby pervade the experience. There is a sense of other times, and of one's own infancy, and of wonder, wonder and more wonder. It is an audience with the alien nuncio. In the midst of this experience, apparently at the end of human history, guarding gates that seem surely to open on the howling maelstrom of the unspeakable emptiness between the stars, is the Aeon."

- Terence McKenna

"See I think drugs have done some good things for us. If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all of your records,tapes and all your CD's and burn them. Because, you know all those musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs, man."

-Bill Hicks

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, that there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imaginations of ourselves."

-Bill Hicks

"My final point about alchohol, about drugs, about Pornography...What business is it of your's what I do, read, buy, see or take into my body as long as I don't harm another human being whilst on this planet? And for those of you having a little moral dilemna on how to answer this, I'll answer for you. NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS Take that to the bank, cash it and take it on a vacation outta my fucking life. And stop bringing shotguns to UFO sightings, they might be here to pick me up and take me with 'em."

-Bill Hicks

"Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?"

-Bill Hicks

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,

terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in

this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the

religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by

giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their

view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and

learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;

chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

Think for yourself.

Question authority."

-Timothy Leary

"Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration."

-Timothy Leary

"Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life."

-Timothy Leary

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

-Timothy Leary

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

-Timothy Leary

"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go."

-Timothy Leary

"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third."

-Timothy Leary

"Science is all metaphor."

-Timothy Leary

"My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."

-Timothy Leary

"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time."

-Timothy Leary

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

-Timothy Leary

"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."

-Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary, In Death/Last Words

"Acid is not for every brain...only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain."

"They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet."

-Timothy Leary

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."

-Timothy Leary

"Psychadelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in body hair."

-Terrance Mckenna

"We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the grasslands of Africa, people not on drugs were behind the curve. The fact is that, in terms of human evolution, people not on psychedelics are not fully human. They've fallen to a lower state, where they're easily programmed, boundary defined, obsessed by sexual possessiveness which is transferred into fetishism and object obsession. We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting. "Take your political party, your job, whatever, and shove it.""

-Terence McKenna

"I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are."

-Terence McKenna

"We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom."

-Terence McKenna

"The Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. It's an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set."

-Terence Mckenna

"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."

-Terence Mckenna

"The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind"

-Terence Mckenna

"The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity."

-Terence Mckenna

"Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience, but that's what holds the community together."

-Terence Mckenna

"I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature."

-Terence Mckenna

"What the Archaic Revival means is shamanism, ecstacy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people. And the three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy and monotony! And if you get them on the run you have the dominators sweating folks, because that means your getting it all reconnected, and getting it all reconnected means putting aside the idea of separateness and self-definition through thing-fetish. Getting it all connected means tapping into the Gaian mind, and the Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet. And without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set, and that's the idea; figuring out how to reset the compass of the self through community, through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence, INTELLIGENCE. This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace."

-Terence Mckenna

"Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"A word to the wise is infuriating."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"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."

-Maynard James Keenan

"Something has to change.

Un-deniable dilemma.

Boredom's not a burden

Anyone should bear."

-Maynard James Keenan

"It's not enough.

I need more.

Nothing seems to satisfy.

I don't want it.

I just need it.

To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive."

-Maynard James Keenan"

Twirling round with this familiar parable.

Spinning, weaving round each new experience.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.

Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.

All this pain is an illusion."

-Maynard James Keenan

"I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.

And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.

We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going, going..."

-Maynard James Keenan

"So crucify the ego, before it's far too late

To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,

And you will come to find that we are all one mind

Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.

Just let the light touch you

And let the words spill through

And let them pass right through

Bringing out our hope and reason ...

before we pine away."

-Maynard James Keenan

"Seems like I've been here before.

Seems so familiar.

Seems like I'm slipping

into a dream within a dream."

-Maynard James Keenan

"Consequences dictate

our course of action

and it doesn't matter what's right.

It's only wrong if you get caught."

-Maynard James Keenan

"Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life.

Open my eyes and blind me with your light

and your lies."

-Maynard James Keenan

"You're such an inspiration for the ways

That I'll never ever choose to be

Oh so many ways for me to show you

How the savior has abandoned you

Fuck your God

Your Lord and your Christ

He did this

Took all you had and

Left you this way

Still you pray, you never stray

Never taste of the fruit

You never thought to question why."

-Maynard James Keenan

"You're breathing so I guess you're still alive

even if signs seem to tell me otherwise."

-Maynard James Keenan

"What if everything around you

Isn't quite as it seems

What if all the world you used to know

Is an elaborate dream

And if you look at your reflection

Is it all you wanted to be?

What if you could look right through the cracks

Would you find yourself

Find yourself afriad to see?"

-Trent Reznor

"The tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be scab and I had this funny feeling

Like I just knew it was something bad

I just couldn't leave it alone, picking at that scab

Was a doorway trying to seal itself shut

But I climbed through

Now I am somehwere I am not supposed to be, and I can see things I knew I really Shouldn't see

And now I know why (yea now I know why)

Things aren't as pretty

On the inside"

-Trent Reznor

"You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today

And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking

And racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older

And shorter of breath and one day closer to death."

-Gilmore/Pinkfloyd

"You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying."

-Gilmore/Pinkfloyd

"I don't do drugs, I am drugs..."

-Salvador Dali

"It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs."

-Jerry Garcia

"The existence of LSD was even regarded by the drug enthusiasts as a predestined coincidence, it had to be discovered precisely at this time in order to bring help to people suffering under the modern conditions (page 58, LSD-My Problem Child)."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual

crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be

remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift

from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their

environment are separate, toward a new conciousness of an

all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality

in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of

creation."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated. Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being. The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preperations are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful experience."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild."

-Dr. Albert Hoffman

"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see. "

-Jim Morrison

"Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes."

-Jim Morrison

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

-Jim Morrison

"Drugs are a bet with your mind."

-Jim Morrison

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

-Jim Morrison

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

-Jim Morrison

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something."

-Jim Morrison

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again, and they won't be able to forget me - ever."

-Jim Morrison

"I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it."

-Jim Morrison

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

-Jim Morrison

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice."

-Jim Morrison

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."

-Jim Morrison

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

-Jim Morrison

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

-Jim Morrison

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

-Jim Morrison

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

-Jim Morrison

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

-Jim Morrison

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

-Jim Morrison

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

-Jim Morrison

"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

-Jim Morrison

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

-Aldous Huxley

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

-Aldous Huxley

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

-Aldous Huxley

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

-Aldous Huxley

"Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."

-Aldous Huxley

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

-Aldous Huxley

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

-Aldous Huxley

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."

-Aldous Huxley

"One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters."

-Aldous Huxley

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

-Aldous Huxley

"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."

-Aldous Huxley

"Betrayal begins with trust.."

- Phish

"if you're just staring at your walls

observing echoing footfalls

from tenants wandering distant halls

then this one is for you."

-Phish/(Anastasio/Marshall)

"so now I wander over grounds of light and heat and sound and mist

provoking dreams that don't exist

a circus of light where dreams can take flight

in the peacefulness dreaming dreams brings."

-Phish/Marshall

"I'm floating in the blimp a lot mushroomtrip.gif

I feel the feeling I forgot

Swimming weightless in the womb

Bouncing gently round the room

In a minute I'll be free

And we'll be splashing in the sea

I feel no curiosity

I see the path ahead of me

In a minute I'll be free

And we'll be splashing in the sea

We hear a tiny cry

As the ship goes sliding by."

-Phish

"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall."

-Jefferson Airplane

"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."

-Jerry Garcia

"Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky."

-Jimi Hendrix

"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."

-Jimi Hendrix

"I'm the one who's gonna die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want."

-Jimi Hendrix

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

-Jimi Hendrix

"I get by with a little help from my friends, get high with a little help from my friends."

-The Beatles

"It's all in the mind you know."

-George Harrison

"The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us."

George Harrison

"Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world. "