“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.” IfsPersonsExistenceConsciousnessNovelSuccessfulTypeAreasOriginalsReports Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.” TwoBookHomeSpiritualityThreeInterestResultsConsciousnessWeekAchieveAwarenessAreasPsychologicalTherapyEtcMinimumHolistic Author:Jack Canfield
“We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.” MenNeedsMindHumansProblemChristianConsciousnessTakenAreasTraditionDefinitionsHuman MindForbiddenMachineryAcquisition Author:Terence McKenna
“The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.” MatterFormAnimalLevelsConsciousnessKnowingAwarenessConsciousAreasBasesPlantComplexesIncludingEvolveSubstanceQuantumPlants And Animals Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsLightConsciousnessGoneRightsAreasDressesMedicalCivil RightsLegacyPhenomenonLeapMarijuanaSixtySuperficialRehearsalMedical MarijuanaCounterculture Author:Tom Robbins
“The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensAbleCertainConsciousnessDrugAreasAvailableGet BackPsychicsExpandingCannabisLsdHallucinogensConsciousness Expanding Author:William S. Burroughs