Top 36 Altered States Quotes
#1. Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
#2. 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 I can't explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
Omar Khayyam
#3. 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
#4. The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.
Paddy Ashdown
#5. 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 to last.
Frederick Lenz
#6. 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
#7. There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.
Dominic Smith
#8. Maybe I'll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness.
Philip K. Dick
#9. The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.
Nick Nolte
#10. This time the Imp meant to fight, and a city that fought could expect no mercy at all.
George R R Martin
#11. 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. On you go.
A. L. Kennedy
#12. Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did.
Na
#13. A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.
Cliff James
#14. All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all of them, win or lose, are forever altered in spirit of character by the ordeal.
Theodore H. White
#15. The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#16. Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
Wilhelm Reich
#17. Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.
Inazo Nitobe
#18. Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#19. When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
Huston Smith
#20. What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.
Gaspar Noe
#21. The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements.
Neal Stephenson
#22. When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert
#23. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.
Philip K. Dick
#24. 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, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.
Daniel Odier
#25. A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.
Carl Jung
#26. When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!
Susan Schneider
#27. The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
Huston Smith
#28. Moltke closed upon that rigid phrase, the basis for every major German mistake, the phrase that launched the invasion of Belgium and the submarine war against the United States, the inevitable phrase when military plans dictate policy - and once settled it cannot be altered.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#29. 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 will rise and we are in altered states of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Doc went automotively groping in this weirdness east on Olympic, trying not to flinch at what came popping up out of the gloom in the way of city buses and pedestrians in altered states of consciousness.
Thomas Pynchon
#31. I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
Natascha McElhone
#32. For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
Anne Lamott
#33. 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 personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Amelia's journey is just beginning. Stay tuned for the next installment in the "Bound" series.
Stormy Smith
#35. As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
Michael Crichton
#36. There's a danger in looking up past loves. It's usually best to keep sacred memories sacred, or they are bound to disappoint.
Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
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