Bonus Quote by Brad Warner

LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use…

— Timothy Leary

The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for…

— William James

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't…

— Frederick Lenz

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

— Stanislav Grof

“On visioning: In visioning, you’re not using your limited perception of life to manifest. You’re using your mind for the purpose it was actually…

— Derek Rydall

“You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

— John Searle

“We all want expanded consciousness and bliss. It's a natural, human desire. And a lot of people look for it in drugs. But the…

— David Lynch

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

— Iain Banks

“The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that…

— Eben Alexander

Consciousness is a disease.

— Miguel de Unamuno