br1dge Ryan

“People often tell me that I am a pessimist, that I don't believe in the strength of the Russian people, that I am obsessive in my opposition to Putin and see nothing beyond that. If anybody thinks they can take comfort in the "optimistic" forecast, let them do so. It is certainly the easier way, but it is a death sentence for our grandchildren.”
― Anna Politkovskaya

“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.”
― Terence McKenna

“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time.”
― Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

“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!”
― Terence McKenna