Michele Pasin / Quotes

No cultural frame for psychedelic experience

cultural references for these experiences, except for the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s, but this cultural framework is limited to our distorted memory and history of that time. All these thoughts were floating around in my head when I looked over at a calendar near the bed that featured large photos of fruit and flowers. The images looked so clear and the colors were so intense that I thought I could pull the fruit from the printed paper. I felt at peace, a contentment I had not felt since I was ten years old and waking up and smelling my favorite pillow. I was drained; exhausted.

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BPM 4 was Flower Power

Describing BPM 4, the climactic moment of the baby’s delivery, Grof lists some of the salient features of reliving this matrix. [The subject] is struck by…

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Never really trusting LSD

Basically, I never trusted LSD; and despite all the song and dance about psychedelics at the time, I suspect that a large number of my peers didn’t either…

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The best history of the sixties counterculture

While researching this book, I reread Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Not only is the book the best history…

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Why some trips are good and others bad

Mulling it over afterward, however, I saw that it did allow me to reframe the question of why some people had “good” and others “bad” trips. All along Grof…

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LSD and the right hemisphere

For centuries, Western industrial society has overplayed the importance of the left hemisphere, referring to it as the major hemisphere, while systematically…

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Mushrooms and the origins of religion

Such speculations were to run through the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History, which the Wassons published on their return from Mexico. Their book, or so…

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