br1dge Ryan

“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

“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

“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

“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