It’s funny to think about connection and oneness while also spending so much time alone, on the computer. But if you’re on the internet, are you alone?
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Quotes tagged ‘Psychedelics’
To arrive to the mushrooms on their own terms, without the burden of expectations or the concepts put upon them by others, has been, for me, an act of decolonization. It is not in the nature of the Western psyche to give such power directly to a plant, let alone an unruly fungus.
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission…
When a person trips on acid, their body confuses LSD for serotonin and thus allows LSD to bind to serotonin receptors — which is what results in altered states of consciousness and a state of “oneness” with the external world.
[Timothy Leary] During his later life, he wrote books about how the human brain had hidden circuits of consciousness that would allow us to live in space, including a quantum overmind which could control reality and break the speed of light.
I was always the guy saying that I didn't like altered states. Once you know who you are, then it becomes OK.
I felt myself leaving Earth in an intimidatingly disquieting manner, like I was on a vessel I hadn’t suspected to exist, departing a place I’d assumed was the only place.
My journeys since have often repeated this message: human consciousness, from this perspective, is just a way for plants to move plant and bacterial genes around, but we have apparently forgotten this and take ourselves to be the center of planetary telos.