D.M. Turner Quotes

D.M. Turner was an author, psychedelic researcher and psychonaut who wrote two books on psychoactive drugs and entheogens. His first book, The Essential Psychedelic Guide, showcased his views on the subjective effects of various psychoactive and hallucinogenic substances. His second book, Salvinorin, addressed the effects of Salvia divinorum. Turner died after injecting an unknown quantity of ketamine while in a bathtub, drowning while presumably incapacitated by the effects of the drug. Wikipedia

✵ 5. October 1962 – 31. December 1996

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Famous D.M. Turner Quotes

“Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.”

D.M. Turner

Interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=dmturnergips

“The only things I had to look forward to in life was a job and a career and a family and just going through the whole cycle. It just seemed like what everybody else was doing. And I looked at people around me. I looked at the people that taught the schools and around the government, and I looked at the type of work that my father did, and none of it really interested me that much. And when I first took psychedelics, I felt like I was admitted into a world of compassion and beauty and creativity. It was like nothing I had experienced in my regular life. And almost instantly that became the goal of where I wanted to be…”

D.M. Turner

Interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=dmturnergips

“And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.”

D.M. Turner

Interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=dmturnergips

“I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.”

D.M. Turner

Interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=dmturnergips

“And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have been around for a while, at least since humans first started experimenting with these plants.”

D.M. Turner

Interview with Elizabeth Gips http://www.tripzine.com/articles.asp?id=dmturnergips

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