It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDM…

- Ann Shulgin

There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.

- Ann Shulgin

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…

- Ann Shulgin

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…

- Ann Shulgin

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 …

- Ann Shulgin

Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, …

- Ann Shulgin

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 m…

- Ann Shulgin

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 n…

- Ann Shulgin

MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

- Ann Shulgin