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"To get really high is to forget yourself and to forget
yourself is to see everything else; and to see
everything else is to become an understanding
molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the
universe."
-Jerry Garcia
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Echoing the timeless message of
the ancient mystics, Jerry Garcia
reminded us that in order to attain
true understanding, we must first
“forget” ourselves so that we may
“see everything else.”
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"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far
away, nearby and invisible."
-Maria Sabina
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Maria Sabina helped to introduce
her "invisible world" to the Western
mind. She was the first curendera to
allow westerners to participate in a
sacred mushroom ceremony known
as veladas.
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“Who is to say what is real and what is not? 'Real' is
a distinction of a naïve mind..”
-Terrence Mckenna
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Psychedelics teach us that our
world has no boundaries. McKenna
recognized concepts such as “real”
& “non real” as artificial restrictions
on a boundless world.
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When Jimi Hendrix asked the world
in 1967, “Are you experienced?” he
was asking us if we had undergone
the mystic journey with the Allies.
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“Reality,” as you currently experience it, is
something like a waking dream. It is disguising
deeper and more intensified levels of being and
knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the
doors to those other levels now stand open.
-Daniel Pinchbeck
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Pinchbeck asserts that our reality
does not stand alone, but rather
exists as one of many levels. It is
upon each individual to venture out.
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Forever transformed and unable to
relate back to the ordinary world,
psychedelic disciples were urged by
Leary to come together as a
community.
The quote was Leary’s response to
a reporter who asked what people
should do after they “turn on.”
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“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is…
a principal appetite of the soul.”
-Aldous Huxley
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Huxley understood that the basic
drive of the soul was to transcend
its current state into a higher level
of realization. He also understood
the potential that psychedelics
offered us in pursuing this goal.
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“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be
true either is true or becomes true.”
-John Lilly
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John Lilly understood the power of
belief. It is through belief that our
world is created.
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Jim Morrison’s mantra called for an
entire generation of seekers to
puncture through the wall of
ordinary reality.
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"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter
is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That
we are all one consciousness experiencing itself
subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is
only a dream, and we are the imagination of
ourselves...
-Bill Hicks
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More of a philosopher than a
comedian, this is Bill Hicks’ witty
response to a stubborn society that
refuses to recognize the positive
effects of drug induced experiences.
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