Thursday, June 29, 2006
Cravings
"We've all listened to and read our share of breathless reports from trippers, yet for most people this discovery is a glorious surprise. Mystics come back raving about higher levels of perception where one sees realities a hundred times more beautiful and meaningful than the reassuringly familiar scripts of normal life.
For most people it's a life-changing shock to learn that their everyday reality circuit is one among dozens of circuits, which, when turned on are equally real, pulsing with strange forms and mysterious biological signals. Accelerated, amplified some of these alternate realities cane be microscopic in exquisite detail, others telescopic.
Since psychedelic drugs expose us to different levels of perception and experience, use of them is ultimately a philosophic enterprise, compelling us to confront the nature of reality and the nature of our fragile belief systems. The contrast is what triggers the laughter, the error. We discover abruptly that we have been programmed all these years, that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrication." - Timothy Leary from Flashbacks: An Autobiography
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