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Antidepressants fit our society’s underlying biases. Psychedelics, emphatically, do not. Is it possible that we have demonized hallucinogens because we fear the contents of our own minds?
“Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray. Kabir”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“When a man follows the way of the world, or the way of the flesh, or the way of tradition (i.e. when he believes in religious rites and the letter of the scriptures, as though they were intrinsically sacred), knowledge of Reality cannot arise in him.”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“In those respects in which the soul is unlike God, it is also unlike itself. St. Bernard”
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
― The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
“The discussion on motivation of work usually considers only the first problem, namely whether this or that incentive increases the economic productivity of the worker, but not the second, that of his human productivity”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
“In the case of human exceptionalism, the story conceals the possibility that there might be alternatives to encountering the more-than-human world through the lens of mechanistic thought. It also conceals the possibility that there might be (self)consciousness, intelligence, and agency beyond the species divide.”
― Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
― Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild
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