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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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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…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Frederick Lenz
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