“Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.” ThinkingMindBodyMotivationalActionConsciousnessOur LivesSpeechFoundationCarefulAriseSubstanceOur Actions Author:Nhat Hanh
“Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.” Has BeensStatesUseConsciousnessTechnologyPlantSubstanceRitualPsychedelicStates Of Consciousness Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.” MindHumansGivenUnderstandingInterestingConsciousnessStudyGroupsDrugApproachResearchSubstanceHuman MindAbandonedGiven UpPsychedelic Author:Stanislav Grof
“The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.” MindHumansStatesReasonBodyTodayLinesAnimalConsciousnessSpecialEventsActivityDenialSubstanceMaterialismFacultyConventionalIdentificationConventional Wisdom Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“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
“A dream is the meeting of minds; an event in our waking consciousness is the coming together of sensible substances. Hence our feelings by day and our dreams by night are the meetings of mind with mind and of substance with substance.” MindFeelingsDreamTogetherNightConsciousnessEventsMeetingsSubstanceTaoismWakingSensibleOur DreamsComing TogetherMeetings Of The Minds Author:Lie Yukou
“LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.” IfsShouldHumansKindDifferentPainHuman BeingsConsciousnessDrugEssenceSacredTreatedAgentsPreparationSubstanceDifferent KindsCorrespondingLsd Author:Albert Hofmann