81 - The double dreams the self
100 - We are not objects
101 - Forced into the illusion, like in the 8th Duino
Elegy
109 - Difference between the ordinary man and the
warrior
227 - Sorcerer's explanation needn't be a secret, as
personal power decides everything
231 - The world is only a description
233 - Key to all is stopping the internal dialogue.
Helps are erasing personal history & dreaming
235 - The buffer for the apprentice is temperance and
strength
236 - To erase personal history: lose self-importance,
assume responsibility, use death as advisor
238 - Meaningful transformations always in states of
sober consciousness
238 - Power plants only show possibilities by forcing
the internal dialogue to stop
240 - What matters is to arrive at the totality of
oneself, not to learn a new description
277 - While outside the body, to return to the world
of order & pain is unappealing. QV NDE
(Near Death Experience) 285 - This lovely being (Earth) is alive to its last
recesses and understands every feeling
McKenna, Terence -
Food of the Gods
4 - Yoga too slow a path
7 - Language the key per shamans, similar to Wittgenstein's
view
8 - Big Questions, shamans vs physicists
34 - Drugs more relevant than science
41 - Nature is a single cooperating organism
42 - Beyond language, or trans-linguistic
46 - Uniqueness of Man unstudied by science
50 - The World "petrified" by language
60 - Critics of Kubla Khan
93 - Intuition for the Mother Goddess
98 - The notion of "illegal plants" is
ridiculous
137 - Pindar on Eleusis
154 - GBG: Female marijuana must be nurtured to return
to a non-dominator life style
163 - Recreational drug use is
counter-productive. Society sees this
also
178 - Soul of planet shrunken to the dimensions of a
human being
229 - Hallucinogens equated with healing
263 - Physics honors subjectivity
265 - The sedated masses
266 - Government co-opted by fundamentalist right