Altered States Quotes
17 quotes by 13 authors
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It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to…
— Sandra Ingerman
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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,…
— Fred Edwords
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
— Huston Smith
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
— Huston Smith
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The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in…
— Edgar Mitchell
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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 altered state that…
— Omar Khayyam
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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write.…
— A.L. Kennedy
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness.…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us,…
— Daniel Odier
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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 tend…
— Frederick Lenz
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To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water…
— Frederick Lenz
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Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the…
— Frederick Lenz
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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects…
— Moby
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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you…
— Joe Rogan
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I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
— Huston Smith
Who Wrote These Altered States Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 17 Altered States Quotes as follows: