Michele Pasin / Quotes

Can a drug vision equal a saint's?

In any case, how can you take a vision that a saint or contemplative has worked toward for years and say that it is the “same” as one produced by dropping a…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religious-experience #spirituality

Hofmann on the West's spiritual crisis

Hofmann strongly believed that there was a spiritual crisis in Western civilization, and argued that society must shift from “the materialistic, dualistic…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #spirituality #materialism #dualism #nature #psychedelics

Hofmann's lament over recreational LSD

Albert Hofmann lamented the use of LSD as an inebriating drug rather than a therapeutic

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #drugs #spirituality

In the end there is only Grace

The bitterness and sense of betrayal (the recourse to smack or fundamentalist Buddhism) are totally in accord with Underhill’s descriptions of the Dark Night…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #God #religion #self #spirituality

LSD deserves indigenous reverence

treatment or spiritual tool, which made serious research on the drug impossible. He called the recreational use of LSD “careless and irresponsible” and felt…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #spirituality #tradition #research

Neem Karoli Baba takes LSD

During the ’60s, when the debate as to whether psychedelics afforded an authentic mystical experience was at its height, there had appeared to be only one…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religious-experience #spirituality #faith