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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.”
― Jesse Jarnow, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

“It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.”
― Henry Corbin, Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia: Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul

“It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”
― Albert Hofmann

“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