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“And, crucially, we need good myths that help us to venerate the earth as sacred once again, because unless there is a spiritual revolution that challenges the destructiveness of our technological genius, we will not save our planet.”
― Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
― Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
“Millions of people have taken mushrooms for thousands of years, with very few reports of negative consequences. But the government wanted to score points by being seen as “tough on drugs” as the opposition Tory party said they would be.”
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
“Using a back-of-an-envelope calculation, since LSD was banned in the late 1960s possibly 100 million people have died prematurely from alcohol abuse. They were denied a treatment with some strong evidence. And even if LSD had helped only 10 percent of them, that would have saved 10 million lives.”
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
“The fact that psychedelics are about to become medicines shows that they should never have been banned in the first place—probably not even for recreational use, but certainly not as medicines. There are 50 years’ worth of people with mental illnesses and addictions who have been denied the best treatment that could have been available.”
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
― Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
“Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.”
― God: A Biography
― God: A Biography
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