Psychonaut Quotes

“One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.”
― Ryan Lilly

“When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.”
― Ryan Lilly

“At the time of his death, Crowley was taking heroin for asthma. It was a common medical practice at the time for doctors to prescribe heroin for asthma. He became addicted like anyone would. He later used heroin recreationally and sacramentally, as he did with many drugs including cocaine, hashish, ether, peyote, and pretty much anything else he could get his hand on to try. He was after all a scientist (he even trained as a chemist), a mystic, and a psychonaut. He, like Terrence McKenna, did utilize various drugs to explore consciousness.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“We have been witnessing a rebirth of psychedelic research since the early 2000s. Due to the fact we are in what many people call the Psychedelic Renaissance, one cannot help but draw comparisons to the European Renaissance that spanned the 15th and 16th centuries. An equally significant age, one that started around the same time and lasted another century or so, was the Age of Discovery. If we are in a Psychedelic Renaissance, and keeping in mind that history regularly repeats itself, it would be reasonable to assume that a parallel set of activities with matching enthusiasm will happen, what I call the Psychedelic Age of Discovery.”
― A. M. Houot, RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery

“Psychonauts may reference what is taken for reality, as we all must do if we wish to communicate with one another. But they don’t seek answers there—as they grok that the construct is a funhouse of creative mirrors that merely reflect back to us the ‘real’ that we see in them.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality