Altered Quote by Huston Smith

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

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

— Huston Smith

The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences…

— Edgar Mitchell

“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

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God…

— Lin Yutang

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images…

— Carl Jung

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness…

— Anne Lamott

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

— Frederick Lenz

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…

— Joe Rogan

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of…

— Riane Eisler

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large…

— Meghan O'Rourke