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Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.
In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity's evolution.
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.
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.
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.
I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person.
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.
Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology.