Altered States Of Consciousness Quotes

• What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

  Moby

  People, Addiction, Normal

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• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  Joe Rogan

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

  Sandra Ingerman

  Reality, Track, Soul

  "The New Old Treatise on Soul Retrieval headshot" by Kelley Harrell, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2011.

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• 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

  Philosophical, Scared, Structure

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Live Life, Profound, Feelings

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  School, Keys, Hands

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• 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

  Wish, Atoms, Perceive

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Meditation, Drug

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• 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

  Illustration, Guy, Consciousness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

  Riane Eisler

  Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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• More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered states of consciousness. The rhythm of the music was precisely 120 beats per minute, the frequency of the fetal heart rate, and the same beat believed to be used by South American shamans to bring their tribes into a trance state. Through dancing together, without prescribed movements, or even partners, rave dancers sought to reach group consciousness on a level they had never experienced before.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Heart, Dancing, Dancer

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• 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

  Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

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• The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

  John Todd

  Psychics, People, Musical

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• Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Inspiration, Reality

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