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The experiences associated wit...

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

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Traditional academic science d...

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

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Ritual use of psychedelic plan...

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

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LSD is a unique and powerful t...

LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

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[B]y banning psychedelic resea...

[B]y banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

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For any culture which is prima...

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

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Spiritual intelligence is the ...

Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

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If consciousness can function ...

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

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It is possible to see the inte...

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

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Dying before dying has two imp...

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

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There is no fundamental differ...

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

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There are people who can start...

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

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Consciousness does not just pa...

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

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This sense of perfection has a...

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: 'The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

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We have to recognize that spir...

We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

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Whether or not LSD research an...

Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

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When you read the psychedelic ...

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

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As long as I had easy access t...

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

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It became much more complicate...

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

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LSD is a catalyst or amplifier...

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

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