Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

— Barbara Hurd

“Entering a cave” or rock was a metaphor for a shaman’s altered state; therefore, caves (and rocks more generally) were considered entrances or portals…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its…

— Mark Twain

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream…

— Gregory Colbert

“The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall…

— Arthur Rimbaud

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of…

— Thomas George Bonney

“To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“—Sooner or later the mind grasps at a thought and follows it into the labyrinth, one thought branching into another. Then the labyrinth caves…

— Denis Johnson

“makes these thoughts rise from primeval depths. You find yourself fearing what countless ancestors feared before you, ever since the first ambiguous shadow was…

— Jason Arnopp

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either…

— Platone

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This…

— Terence McKenna

“And yet—and this was even more frightening still—I could also feel something within me come undone. Even today, all these decades later, I cannot…

— Hanya Yanagihara