Albert Hofmann Quotes

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• Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

  Albert Hofmann

  Expansion, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Garden, Drug

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• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Our World

  "LSD : My Problem Child" by Albert Hofmann, (Foreword), 1980.

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• This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

  Albert Hofmann

  Real, Views, World

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• LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

  Albert Hofmann

  Tools, Lsd, Turns

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• God only speaks to those who understand the language

  Albert Hofmann

  Language, Speak

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• I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?

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  Dream, Eye, Past

  Jonathan Ott, Albert Hofmann (1997). “Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History”

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• Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

  Albert Hofmann

  Animal, Reality, Magnificence

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Joy, Miracle

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

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  Children, Believe, Practice

  Albert Hofmann (1983). “LSD, my problem child: reflections on sacred drugs, mysticism, and science”, J P Tarcher

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• Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

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  Substance, Way, Helpful

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

  Albert Hofmann

  Mean, Reality, Ego

  "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

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• When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

  Albert Hofmann

  Knowledge, Miracle, Psychedelic

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

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  Consciousness, Mankind

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• It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

  Albert Hofmann

  Psychedelic, Dangerous, Contact

  "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2006.

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• I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

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  Born

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• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

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  Eye, Light, Doe

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• By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

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  Reality, Discovery, Meditation

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• Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

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  Essence, Consciousness, Individual

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• In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.

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  Eye, Color, Play

  "Will Self: Recreating Albert Hofmann's Basel Bike Ride On LSD" by Will Self, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2013.

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• I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

  Albert Hofmann

  Thinking, Tools, Substance

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

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  Character, Reality, Emotional

  "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

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• We can study material processes and various processes at the energetic level, that is what we can do as natural scientists. And then there comes something quite different, the psychic experience, which remains a mystery.

  Albert Hofmann

  Psychics, Different, Levels

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality of everyday life. Just one true reality and the rest was imagination and was not real. But under the influence of LSD, I entered into realities which were as real and even more real than the one of everyday. And I thought about the nature of reality and I got some deeper insights.

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  Real, Imagination, Everyday

  Source: conservatoryofmagicdotcom.wordpress.com

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• I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

  Albert Hofmann

  Needs, Lsd, Huxley

  "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 07, 2006.

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