Ann Shulgin famous quotes

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It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Self #People #Hatred
MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Giving Up #Drug
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Simple #Long #Finding Yourself
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.
-- Ann Shulgin

#School #Government #Drug
You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Conscious #Subconscious #Universe
There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Home #Helping #Coming Home
Every person's body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else. There's no way to tell what the perfect psychedelic drug would be, because it would be perfect for only you.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Perfect #Drug #Different
If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Men #Extraordinary
We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.
-- Ann Shulgin

#Spiritual #Party #Intelligent

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred
I donâ€™t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansâ€¦ itâ€™s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, itâ€™s not who you loveâ€¦ a man, a woman, what have youâ€¦ itâ€™s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Ann Shulgin famous quotes

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