It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.
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Related When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psych... STANISLAV GROF ...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state k... ALDOUS HUXLEY Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open sp... STANISLAV GROF Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a thi... TERENCE MCKENNA Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psyched... RAY MANZAREK There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can ... STANISLAV GROF I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little ... HARRY NILSSON Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, t... FEDERICO FELLINI These days, when I knock on the doors of the Tryptamine Palace, I am no longer greeted with uncondit... JAMES OROC Psychedelics show you what’s in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that ar... RICK STRASSMAN Things are pretty strange in this world and people do it many ways and you are just an atom in a gal... TERENCE MCKENNA As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of m... STANISLAV GROF Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for dra... PETER STAFFORD For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as d... ALDOUS HUXLEY The collective unconscious, the same as other transpersonal phenomena, is evidence that our mind is ... JAMES OROC I am convinced that the way forward for the human race is to recognize and protect the fundamental r... 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JENNIFER SODINI The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. LAURIE ANDERSON Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there ... RANBIR KAPOOR And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young pe... GEORGE MARTIN I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var... S. TRUETT CATHY A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberat... STANISLAV GROF Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of deat... STANISLAV GROF Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, o... STANISLAV GROF Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and ... STANISLAV GROF The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a m... STANISLAV GROF The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic... STANISLAV GROF Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to wel... STANISLAV GROF A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope ... STANISLAV GROF I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to en... STANISLAV GROF There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and ... STANISLAV GROF Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying... STANISLAV GROF The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. STANISLAV GROF The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of s... STANISLAV GROF It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than inc... STANISLAV GROF Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has... STANISLAV GROF The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that de... STANISLAV GROF Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological think... STANISLAV GROF For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty t... STANISLAV GROF Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in anot... STANISLAV GROF The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to... STANISLAV GROF There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousnes... STANISLAV GROF In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with re... STANISLAV GROF Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any exi... STANISLAV GROF I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you'... MALIN AKERMAN (Railroaders) are unique people because they are spread out over hundreds and hundreds of miles of t... DICK HILLMAN I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, o... F. SIONIL JOSE Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particul... ROBERT DOISNEAU There's a higher burnout rate among young people who are new to the work force. JULIE MUNSELL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL The technique is particularly effective with young people, who frequently try to emulate the looks, ... BARRY MCCAFFREY The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism abo... HUNTER S. THOMPSON View the gradients of adversity as the colors that paint your story, and the power of experience as ... JENNIFER SODINI The marijuana paradox - although associated with increased appetite and calorie consumption, re... THE FITNESS DOC However, questions arise. Are there people who aren't naive realists, or special situations in which... THOMAS METZINGER Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON I've always had a complicated relationship with advertising. It's everywhere, and it's becoming more... IAN BOGOST It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in ... STEPHEN KING It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help th... JOSE A. AVILES Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What wo... JOYCE CARY The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complic... JANET LEIGH God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what... CASSANDRA GIOVANNI I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will b... BILL MUSE Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all. LALAH DELIA Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help th... JOSE A. AVILES ED. D. We have to improve integration, particularly of young people. WOLFGANG SCHAEUBLE It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime w... LAURA FRASER Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ... SUSAN WOJCICKI One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ... STEVEN SEAGAL When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become eas... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD These are the writings of a perverted monster who was sent out into the field unsupervised to be wit... RODERICK MACLEISH It's so much more complicated than everyone's making it out to be. The federal response has been qui... FRANK CILLUFFO To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It... AI WEIWEI He became more reflective and chose to live life with much more solitude. His passion for fishing gr... WENDY DAY Spencer will always be our theatre of choice for 'A Christmas Carol' in part because that theatre is... LAURA MUIR Spencer will always be our theatre of choice for 'A Christmas Carol' in part because that theatre is... LAURA MUIR
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