“My only reality was a mass of radiant swirling energy of immense proportions that seemed to contain all existence in a condensed and entirely abstract form. I became Consciousness facing the Absolute. It had the brightness of myriad suns, yet… — 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… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
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
“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the 'indicator species'… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“All the elements were there: the frozen feeling bubbling up and permeating my body like quantum foam fizzing up to engulf the fragmenting mind,… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
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