Quotes by Alexander Shulgin - Page 1

I think when you die, you die.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
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MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
All Things
People
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Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Drug
Psychedelic
Rich
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The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Believe
Drug
Psychedelic
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The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Children
Magic
World
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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.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Character
Drug
Want
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It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Drug
Essentials
Honesty
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I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Men
Beautiful
Drug
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If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Drug
Perfect
Vision
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Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Anxiety
Feelings
Waiting
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Scheduling of drugs is a government problem, not our problem. They want to schedule something, that's their problem. My feeling of creation is to make new drugs. They're new drugs, so they're unscheduled. They've never been made before.
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Drug
Feelings
Problem
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I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.
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Availability
May
Mind
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How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Feelings
Gratitude
Long
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... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Discovery
Mean
Self
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To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.
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Demand
Drug
Wish
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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.
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Cells
Drug
Mean
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How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.
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Character
Drug
Spiritual
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Government
Marijuana
Spiritual
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Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.
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Drug
Night
Understanding
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The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.
Alexander Shulgin / Chemist
Availability
Memories
White
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