Some Psychedelic Thoughts and Quotes

Psychedelics vastly increase the capacity to concentrate and notice. What is more special about the experience other than it induces a trance state? And a trance state is nothing more than being able to concentrate very well, in fact to a degree that you can’t reach in normal consciousness. What does this give us? More information about the thing we are paying attention to. A vision, after all, is seeing something that was always there — the insight in what we call Insight Meditation. Deeply satisfying and, finally, uninterrupted knowledge. Connecting in a way that makes parts of us we hadn’t even noticed, very happy.

“God is just what the world is like when it is experienced fully, and spirit is what matter is like when it is experienced fully.” Shinzen Young

The difference between getting by and getting on. In getting by, we aim to accumulate enough power and resources to get us through any imaginable rainy day; in getting on, we delve into remembering who we are.

No special reason to think that in this life we are not sunk in ignorance and misapprehension. In fact when you consider the moment by moment content of our daily thoughts this seems perfectly possible. If that is true, there is no reason to suppose that our gloomy and anxiety-ridden ruminations should be on the right track. Quite possible then, that with ignorance gone, we might find ourselves living in paradise.

“The whole of life is one person in creation.” Ilia Delio

Wholeness can’t be one more to-do list item; it has to be organized around first principles, such as truth and light. A relationship with the infinite.

Not just what happened, but what failed to happen.

“Ridiculous the waste sad time, stretching before and after.” T.S.Eliot