“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.” FeelsSometimesStatesHappensStrongConsciousnessTeacherPleasantEnlightenedVery StrongAltered Author:Frederick Lenz
“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.” BodyNamesGivenProcessMy OwnConsciousnessEventsObjectsSkinsTechniqueDefinedVisibleDivinityInternalsOrgansIntroducingSacramentsIntroductionTangibleAlteredUneasyBorderline Author:Timothy Leary
“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.” WorldWayKindStatesMightSpiritualConsciousnessPathMeditationSeeingThis WorldDrugIntenseContemplationAlteredSpiritual PathVery DeepPortalStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Anne Lamott
“The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.” HumansStatesRealizingPerfectHealingBrainConsciousnessCreativeDoorsStrangePerceptionInstrumentsProphetAttributesFabulousLiberatingCreepsAlteredHuman BrainUnderestimatedFluentCavernsDoors Of PerceptionAltered States Author:Marilyn Ferguson
“Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.” GivingStatesMomentsBodyPainConsciousnessWonderBirthMiracleCellsAweAlteredChildbirthGiving BirthStates Of ConsciousnessAwe And WonderAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Riane Eisler
“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.” PersonsTwoStatesMightForcePowerfulConsciousnessMeditationStageBuddhismPleasantVery PowerfulAlteredChakraStates Of ConsciousnessChakra MeditationAdvisableAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.” WellsMatterRealityPoliticalPoliticsSocialWomenTermConsciousnessEconomicRevolutionInvolvedStructureEnormousPsychologicalSexismSocial ChangeExposureAlteredEliminationImpliedSexual RevolutionReorganization Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.” PeopleWorldHas BeensStatesUseUsedSpiritSoundAbilityConsciousnessPlansInfluenceTypeDevilMusicalContactMediumsAppropriateConcertsPsychicsBeneficialAlteredOccultImposingAttendingInitiateStates Of ConsciousnessWorld MusicSpirit WorldPsychic AbilitiesAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:John Todd
“The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.” WayMindLittlesStatesHandsSchoolUsedBitsConsciousnessMysteryKeysLittle BitTrainingMethodAncientProjectionHintsAlteredCurriculumStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.” StatesGuyConsciousnessAlteredIllustrationStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Gaspar Noe
“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.” TryingFirstsHumansEarthUniverseWaterBornSpaceConsciousnessTechnologySunDoorsMovementPerspectiveAskingCamerasDistanceFishesHardestRevelationsEcologyAlteredCenter Of The Universe Author:Vicki Goldberg
“When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!” EndsStatesWholeConsciousnessPhilosophicalStructureScaredTerrifiedAlteredRealisationStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Susan Schneider
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.” PeopleFeelsStatesMomentsConsciousnessBehaviorNormalAspectOkayAddictionToxicAlteredObsessiveNormal LifeStates Of ConsciousnessBrief MomentsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Moby
“As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.” IfsWayPersonsLongI CanStatesDoneWholeHelpingConsciousnessAchieveHavensInvolvedPeriodsYogaWhole LifeAlteredStretchingLong Periods Of TimeStates Of ConsciousnessPhysical FitnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Joe Rogan