“I lost all contact with the surrounding world, which completely disappeared…The awareness of my everyday existence, my name, my whereabouts and my life disappeared… I tried hard to remind myself of the existence of the realities I used to know,… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“…Some timeless time later, dreamlike images began to emerge, the solar system, the Earth…the last to emerge was the sense of my everyday identity and awareness of my present life. I was sure that I had taken a dose that was excessive and that I was actually dying… I believed I was experiencing the bardo, the intermediate state before my… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share
The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943. — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed and entirely… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture. — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“I lost all contact with the surrounding world, which completely disappeared…The awareness of my everyday existence, my name, my whereabouts and my life disappeared…… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“I get caught in a hell-world of some sort. In the initial phase, I’m aware of and merging with a kind of network of… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one,… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“(Female) I let go more fully than I ever have. I became the sounds and the movements – no controlling. That is the place… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
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