Quotes About Altered States Of Consciousness

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

Steve Maraboli

#12. A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

Ernie J Zelinski

#13. 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

#14. But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?

James Joyce

#15. There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

Dominic Smith

#16. My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.

Conrad Sewell

#17. Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a body designed to expel its own replacement.

Lionel Shriver