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Quotes from Hofmann's Potion I was walking on beautiful May morning. Suddenly I
stopped and I had the feeling everything had changed. The woods
was beautiful. I had the feeling that I now saw the woods as it
really is. I had the feeling I would be included by it. I had a
feeling of happiness I never had before. And this gave me the security
that if you had open eyes you may see the world in a different way.
I mean in you see it as it really is - wonderful. The effect is somewhat like looking through a microscope.
Suddenly when you look threw a microscope you discover that there
is an invisible world around you that you hadn't known about. The
same is true about the psychedelic drug. You are aware of processes
that going on inside your own brain. You are aware of the exchange
of energy going on between your sense organs and the ones around
them that you weren't aware of before. For myself these experiences have been most strange;
most awesome. And in their own way, amongst the most beautiful,
in my life. A sense of spacious significance began to invest everything.
Everything was brilliantly sharp and significant. If I fixed my
attention on a flower, I felt I could spend all day contemplating
it. Phrases such as "I've seen with the eye of the world, the
new eye of the newborn on a new day sprang to my town, apparently
without construction." A plain wooden chair was invested with
chairiness no chair had ever for me before. In a good LSD experience you resolve your inner conflicts,
and the loads and the barriers that have developed. You begin to
reach down into the depth of your own being. You see more and more
levels of being. More and more levels of understanding. Often we
like to blame our feelings on other people. And what they are doing
to us. But if I feel that it's my feeling and I've produced it,
then I'm the only one who can resolve it. And fortunately, these
substances allow you see and recognize this. And resolve it. Aldous and I would give a session to a friend, or
someone who wanted it and the preparation for a session, was very,
very careful. The day before we didn't do anything. We just fixed
the house very quietly. The day of the session there was nothing
except that, and even the day after. To Aldous the session was a
gratuitous grace - something that was given to you for nothing.
Not that you merited it. You are just lucky in getting it. It's
what you do with it afterwards, that counted. I wasn't born as Richard Albert. I was just born as
a human being. And then I learned this whole business of who I am,
and whether I'm good or bad, or achieving or not. All that's learned
along the way. You see all those learned things separate. You become
is a point of awareness. That's all that is left. I remember the
first time this happened to me, as professor went, and middle class
boy went, and pilot went, and all of my games were going off into
the distance. I got this terrible panic, because, indeed, I was
going to cease to exist. And I got the panic, which is the panic
that precedes psychological death. Because indeed Richard Albert
was dying. We all want to expand our consciousness, we
alter our consciousness all the time. We cycle through waking and
dreaming and sleeping. It's natural-- consciousness naturally varies.
I mean, I took a consciousness expanding drug this morning: I had
a cup of coffee. That was a psychoactive, it got my brain going.
Probably most people do that. © conceptafilm 2003 |
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