Michele Pasin / Quotes

A childhood illness as root trauma

The CD played out, so it must have been the best part of an hour—then abruptly several disparate pieces of information jigsawed themselves together. Suddenly…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #childhood #illness #unconscious #memory #emotions

Acid doubles back to dig out trauma

Yet again I was amazed at the drug’s flexibility. All last summer I had been going deeper and deeper into boundary- and ego-loss states, and when finally I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #unconscious #childhood #psychotherapy

Dissociation as a coping mechanism

According to Smith, and many other DID experts, the vast majority of cases begin with severe childhood abuse. Dissociation is essentially a coping mechanism…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #dissociation #childhood #memory #self

Gran's sugared almonds

Then she would fish bleakly in a bag of sugared almonds that she produced from somewhere on her person, making a big show of offering me one, since she knew I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #family #childhood #love #food

Learning to read the story of my own life

It was during this time of abstention from acid that I first saw the drug was having an ongoing effect. Had I not been living such a placid and outwardly…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #childhood #memory #self

Nothing had been lost

I was leaving Judges Walk by a different route from the way I had come, down a tiny cul-de-sac. If you go that way the first thing you pass is a tall old…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #memory #time #childhood #self