“We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.” BeliefGrowthAnimalObjectsToolsUltimateTechnologicalPsychicsEmbeddedReefs Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.” ThinkingWorldWaySpiritMotherDiesAnimalLevelsSawsCallingSurpriseUnconsciousFoxesPsychicsSurprise MeOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Cheryl Strayed
“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.” KindMayStillsFormSongLanguageAnimalBrainVisionHigherActivityCapacityOrganizationPrimitivePsychicsTriggersDoseCatalystEmergenceEnzymesPsilocybin Author:Terence McKenna