- Albert Hofmann: It is very important that one is *prepared* for the use of psychedelics. It is not just fun; it is a very serious experiment.
- Myron Stolaroff: I feel very indebted to Albert Hoffman for inventing LSD. After my first LSD-experience I claimed that this was the greatest discovery that man had ever made, because after all the human mind is the most important attribute we have, and this lets us understand our mind and the enormous potential of mind.
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- Albert Hofmann: I think that the possibility to have psychedelic experience is inborn. These psychedelics - very similar compounds are in our brain; of all the compounds which you find in the plant kingdom only the psychedelics are so closely related chemically to these brain factors, which we already have. We speak about the paradise of childhood. When I had this vision and beautiful experience as a child, this is no wonder, because we have these compounds already in our brain.
- Dr. Ralph Metzner: When you think about ritual, in a traditional ritual ceremony, that's just the purpose of intentional use of arranging the set and the setting; it's not the ritual per se that has any value.
- [Duncan Blewett was Head of Psychology Dept., University of Saskatchewan]
- Duncan Blewett: There are still people who are violently opposed to psychedelics. Very few of them have ever tried psychedelics; and 99% of the opposition to them comes from people who are completely ignorant of their effects.
- Timothy Leary: We teach people the science and art of Ecstasy. We teach people how to turn on, or how to go out of their minds. By "turn on", we mean tune in to get beyond your routine ways of thinking and acting and experiencing.
- Narrator: By the mid-1950s, LSD-research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses.