#psyche

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experienced #feel #many #much #open

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#ancient #collective #culture #inner #maps

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#easy #easy access #energy #had #i

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#became #because #complicated #experimentation #more

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#connection #death #human #human psyche #important

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#being #creepy #early #i #institution

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#batman #clearly #culture #does #else

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #deeper #delve #harder #having