Justin Smith-Ruiu > Quotes

“It is not experienced so much as a thing in the world but instead as the force that gives the world its general shape”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“I have considered that it would be good for everyone to have the opportunity to use psychedelic drugs at some point in their lives. Like falling in love”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“the most significant feature of a psychedelic experience is often that it is not characterized by hallucinations at all but by the suspension of hallucinations.”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“Fourth and finally”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“The Weirdness of the World”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“The cosmic and the oceanic both often suggest an experience of something like superconsciousness”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“But the thought experiment can at least help us to start reconsidering what sort of accomplishment we judge getting reality right to be. We might now”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“And it is also true”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality

“The feeling of a higher (or deeper) consciousness that is attained with what I have called “the dissolution of the self” may also be accompanied by an experience of the unreality of time.”
― Justin Smith-Ruiu, On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality