Michele Pasin / Quotes

Tuning in to one station loud and clear

For me personally, my experience of turning in to the passerby on the street initiated a cycle of boundary-loss experiences, marking a qualitative break with everything that had come before. My earlier trips seemed like fumbling with a radio dial and getting bursts of this or that station: but from the time of that first trip on the street, I felt I had tuned in to one station loud and clear. Everything became coherent, and session after session went deeper into the same themes.

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#psychedelics #ego #transpersonal-consciousness #metaphor

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LSD and ego dissolution

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Psychedelics as a paradox for materialists

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AI is still building wing-flapping machines

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Buildings around the same emptiness

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