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“Who said we are all doing the same thing?” Garcia will say to an interviewer about the East and West Coast. “That was the difference between us and them. For me it was very profound on lots of levels. Going off into the woods and being meditative didn’t cough up anything for me except how pretty everything is. I got my flashes from seeing other people, because I was also looking for something in this world, not out of it. I was looking for a way to get through this life, not a way to transcend it.”
― Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
― Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.”
― Lioness Awakens
― Lioness Awakens
“i think what these
psychedelics do
is they put you very much in the here
and now and it's nothing more than that i mean
obviously i'm an egghead and an abstract
thinker and i hope to make my reputation in mathematics
But feeling is the primary validator of existence and if you dont know that you gotta go back to square one.
these things empower feeling they are catalysts for the imagination. You may not like what psychedelics do to you - they may terrify you.
But if it terrifies you, then surely it must have catalysed your imagination - otherwise you wouldn't have known that terror!”
―
psychedelics do
is they put you very much in the here
and now and it's nothing more than that i mean
obviously i'm an egghead and an abstract
thinker and i hope to make my reputation in mathematics
But feeling is the primary validator of existence and if you dont know that you gotta go back to square one.
these things empower feeling they are catalysts for the imagination. You may not like what psychedelics do to you - they may terrify you.
But if it terrifies you, then surely it must have catalysed your imagination - otherwise you wouldn't have known that terror!”
―
“It is up to each individual consciousness to develop its own symbol or symbols, its
own symbolic universe.”
― Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
own symbolic universe.”
― Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
“I will add a cautionary note. I always feel odd telling people to verify my observations since the sine qua non is the hallucinogenic plant. Experimenters should be very careful. One must build up to the experience. These are bizarre dimensions of extraordinary power and beauty. There is no set rule to avoid being overwhelmed, but move carefully, reflect a great deal, and always try to map experiences back onto the history of the race and the philosophical and religious accomplishments of the species. All the compounds are potentially dangerous, and all compounds, at sufficient doses or repeated over time, involve risks. The library is the first place to go when looking into taking a new compound.”
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