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“Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.”
“Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
“Psychedelic experience seems to temporarily crack open a kind of new critical window; a window of opportunity with with great neuroplastic potential, with an enriched interpretation of the world in terms of personal relevance, amplified analogical thinking, and a wider web of semantic association; one that not only reveals the elemental foundations of thought and perception to the conscious mind, but invites it to participate, orient toward significance, integrate a variety of personally relevant information, and produce insightful experiences and emotional breakthroughs that can mark the beginning of a process of re-orienting priorities, attention, attitudes, and behavior. A change in the mobilization, distribution, and utilization of limited energetic resources by the serotonin system, in other words; an opportunity for the master homeostatic regulator to integrate all the various pertinent variables, re-orient and re-align the self, body, and outside world.”
“Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.”
Source: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
“Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.”
“Psychedelic experiences are notoriously hard to render in words; to try is necessarily to do violence to what has been seen and felt, which is in some fundamental way pre- or post-linguistic or, as students of mysticism say, ineffable. Emotions arrive in all their newborn nakedness, unprotected from the harsh light of scrutiny and, especially, the pitiless glare of irony. Platitudes that wouldn't seem out of place on a Hallmark card flow with the force of revealed truth.
Love is everything.
Okay, but what else did you learn?
No - you must not have heard me; it's everything!
Is a platitude so deeply felt still just a platitude? No, I decided. A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion. To resaturate that dried husk with feeling is to see it again for what it is: the loveliest and most deeply rooted of truths, hidden in plain sight.”
Source: How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
“Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.”
“Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.”
“Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.”
“Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty.”
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
“Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience. This is not the only gate to that discovery, but it is the most ancient and universal, and potentially the most accessible to the majority of the human race.”
“Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.”
“Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.”
“Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.”
“Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.”
“Psychedelics show you what’s in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present. Depending upon set and setting, the same drug, at the same dose, can cause vastly different responses in the same person. One day, very little happens; another day, you soar, full of ecstatic and insightful discoveries; the next, you struggle through a terrifying nightmare. The generic nature of psychedelic, a term wide open to interpretation, suits these effects.”
“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
“Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.”
Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
“Psychiatric medications have a serious downside, as they may deflect attention from dealing with the underlying issues.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.”
Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy
“Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head.”
“Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof's Holotropic Breathwork, born from 1970s psychedelic restrictions, uses rapid breathing, music, and bodywork for unconscious exploration and trauma healing, echoing ancient Yogic Pranayama (Rig Veda ~1700-1100 BCE, Upanishads ~800-500 BCE) and Sufi Dhikr ceremonies (from the 12th century).”
Source: Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion
“Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.”
“Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.”
“Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the truthseeking role. That's probably true of the other fields, too, but maybe more so of the personalities that gravitate toward psychiatry. They tend to care about people and wish to be helpful.”
“Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.”
“Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.”
“Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.”
“Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?”
Source: The second sin
“Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.”
“Psychiatry causes so much death”
“Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.”
“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.”
“Psychiatry has come a long way, into the spiritual realm. Into energies. There are deniers, certainly, but they all work for big oil. Now tell me about your most recent dreams.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Psychiatry is a hoax.
…political construct of gaslighting to let people continue thinking a certain way.
…it is fantasy because it could have easily been elsehow.
Professionals… suspects of crimes of false realities.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.... You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do...Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.”
“Psychiatry is a rudimentary medical art. It lacks easy access to proof of its proposals even as it deals with disorders of the most complex features of human life — mind and behavior.”
“Psychiatry is a state religion, philosophically bankrupt, built on the outdated premises of dualism. Psychiatrists themselves are corrupt and confused. They set an example of suicide for their followers, sell to the highest bidder in our courts, suppress dissent and individuality in corporations and on campuses, and wield the weapon of stigmatization with utter disregard for individual rights and freedoms.”
Source: Shock treatment is not good for your brain
“Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.”
Source: The Spinoza Problem: A Novel
“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height”
“Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.”
“Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”
“Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.”
“Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.”
“Psychic abilities aren’t reserved for a gifted few—they are natural states of awareness we can all remember and reclaim.”
Source: Unlocking Psychic Potential: A Beginner’s Guide to Channeling, Remote Viewing, and More
“Psychic ability is not about "seeing the unseen" — it is about perceiving what the soul already sees. It is the soul’s metaphysical cognition made known to the waking mind.”
Source: The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
“Psychic ability relies on a mentally relaxed state of detachment. A flower doesn’t bloom through being pried open by force; likewise, psychic receptivity cannot be achieved through strain. Psychic receptivity comes with a state of mental passivity while simultaneously staying focused and open. We open ourselves up through relaxation. We want a focused flow, not force.”
Source: Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation