Tag: quotes

theimpossiblecool:

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger. Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

Timothy Leary. 

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headlesswanderer:

“The Panpsychospere represents the realm of cosmic imagination fro whic which emergent phenomena arise spontaneously and chaotically in all lower spheres and which stimulates creativity”

Peter J. Carroll – The Octavo (Roundworld Edition)

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When the door between the worlds is round and open – Dream Gates

metapsykhe:

If you can develop the ability to enter and remain in a state of relaxed, free-flowing awareness before or after sleep, images will come. You can simply observe them as they rise and fall, or engage with one of these images or scenes and enter into what may be a full-fledged lucid dream journey.

Experiences in this twilight zone are very similar to those of psychics when they “open up” and let impressions come, and of creative people when they enter a flow state. Indeed, both psychic discoveries and creative breakthroughs come almost effortlessly in the half-dream state if you are willing to let them come – and (of course) to catch them and use them.

— Robert Moss 

When the door between the worlds is round and open – Dream Gates

plarabee:

From Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual:

“The goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of occultism, the one pointing up to the white
moon of Chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of Geburah.
This sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice. His one
arm is female, the other male like the ones of the androgyne of
Khunrath, the attributes of which we had to unite with those of our goat
because he is one and the same symbol. The flame of intelligence
shining between his horns is the magic light of the universal balance,
the image of the soul elevated above matter, as the flame, whilst being
tied to matter, shines above it. The beast’s head expresses the horror
of the sinner, whose materially acting, solely responsible part has to
bear the punishment exclusively; because the soul is insensitive
according to its nature and can only suffer when it materializes. The
rod standing instead of genitals symbolizes eternal life, the body
covered with scales the water, the semi-circle above it the atmosphere,
the feathers following above the volatile. Humanity is represented by
the two breasts and the androgyne arms of this sphinx of the occult
sciences.”

* Image & Text by Eliphas Levi

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johnsparker:

“Modulations of Consciousness From the point of view of consciousness, there is no separate, individual self or ego that could transition through any states. Waking, dreaming and deep sleep are temporary modulations of consciousness, which is never itself inherently changed by any of the states it assumes.”

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The Nature of Consciousness by  Rupert Spira

astranemus:

“There are few people totally unresponsive to the beauties of nature, and none at all that is not responsive to its ferocious manifestations. Fewer are able to respond profoundly to the beauty of natural phenomena, and fewer still to so-called works of art. It takes a degree of genius to respond to such manifestations the whole time. Artists in this category are among the saints, some of whom thrilled with rapture at the constant awareness of the total unity, harmony and beauty of things. Such were Boehme, Ramakrishna, etc. Some yogis are immersed in an unsullied and vibrant bliss derived from the incessant contemplation of this ‘world bewitching maya’ – the breath-taking wonder of the great and glamorous illusion which surrounds us.”

— Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time