Mescaline Quotes

“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”
― Sebastian Marincolo

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Mescaline is good. Mescaline is progress.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“But, in one way or another, all our experiences are chemically conditioned, and if we imagine that some of them are purely ‘spiritual’, purely ‘intellectual’, purely ‘aesthetic’, it is merely because we have never troubled to investigate the internal chemical environment at the moment of their occurrence. Furthermore, it is a matter of historical record that most contemplatives worked systematically to modify their body chemistry, with a view to creating the internal conditions favorable to spiritual insight.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”
― Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia

“O que nós outros só vemos sob a influência da mescalina pode, a qualquer tempo, ser visto pelo artista, graças à sua constituição congênita. Sua percepção não está limitada ao que é biológica ou socialmente útil. Algo do saber inerente à Onisciência flui através da válvula redutora do cérebro e do ego e atinge sua consciência. Isso lhe dá um conhecimento do valor intrínseco de tudo que existe.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell