“Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.” HumansEgoMalesPopulationContactNeuroticPsychedelicHuman PopulationMale Ego Author:Terence McKenna
“Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.” IfsSoulBehindsReadyEgoBehaviorContactOddCracksEccentricityLearned Behavior Author:Ram Dass
“Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.” PeopleGivingFeelsHumansUseSpiritualCultureTermCommonGreaterDivineEgoBoundariesContactSubstancePhrasesTranscendent Author:Andrew Weil
“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.” WorldInterestingBrainEgoModelsDirectOneselfPhilosopherContactCharacteristicsInternalsRealisticTunnelsRobustFinnish Author:Thomas Metzinger
“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.” IfsSoulRememberJoySpiritLyingMeditationEgoYogaResistanceContactTreatmentMeditatingReluctanceIf ThenEgo And Soul Book:The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” LyingSocialCreativityCreativeEgoIncreaseContactFacultyFrictionLies And Liars Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.” HumansFactsRomanceLyingFallSocialCreativeHuman NatureSpeechEgoIncreaseDeedsContactFacultyIdealismNobilityFrictionWholeheartedly Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.” PersonsTwoRealHappensTogetherSleepBehindsFourWifeRelationshipGoes OnBedHusbandEgoContactMaking LoveOvercrowdingSleeping Together Author:Rajneesh