“Sexual arousal and penal erections are associated with both altered states of consciousness and sleep.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“the Altered States Economy totals out to roughly $4 trillion a year. That’s a sizable chunk of our income that we annually… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“although those who exhibit structural division of the personality commonly exhibit altered states of consciousness, only relatively few individuals who experience altered… — Paul Frewen Copy Share Image
“The major goal of the Cold War mind control programs was to create dissociative symptoms and disorders, including full multiple personality disorder.… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“As human beings, we are connected in many ways to each other, to the nature that surrounds us and to the outermost… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you,… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the… — Sandra Ingerman Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation from one’s body (less commonly understood… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“Just because you think clearly doesn’t mean you talk to God.” “Aha!” Vetra exclaimed. “And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In southern Africa, a great many figures are ithyphallic. This feature has generally – and rather vaguely – been taken to refer… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly… — Moby Copy Share Image
“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
