"Fueled by small doses of LSD, almost everything was amusing or weird."

""I was being led by the hand of a wise old man who I know was God, and we went of to the front of the synagogue. I was handed a Torah for me to carry as a sign that I had been accepted, and forgiven, and that I had come home.""

"I began to see patterns on the wall that were continuously moving. They were transparent, and were not colored. After a short period these patterns became the heads of animals, a fox, a snake, a dragon. Then kaleidoscopic images appeared to me in my inner eye, fantastically beautiful and colored."

"We have drunk the Soma; we have become immortal; we have gone to the light; we have found the gods."

"It is the whites who have brought us the Cross and the Book. All the things in their religion one hears by the ears. But we Fang do not learn that way. We learn by the eyes, and 'eboga' is the religion that enables us to actually see!"

"It is like a beautiful flower, as one says. It is like the Deer. It is our life. We must go so that it will enable us to see our life."

"We do not call it mescal, neither do we call it peyote. Our favorite term is 'Medicine', and to us it is a portion of the body of Christ, even as the communion bread is believed to be a portion of Christ's body by other Christian denominations."

"To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy. A guardian lives in the bhang leaf... In moderation bhang is the best of gifts... Bhang quickens fancy, deepens thought, and braces judgment."

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

"This 'world' lost all reality because I had abruptly entered another world, infinitely more real, an instantaneous and intense world of eternity, a concentrated flame of reality and evidence into which I had cast myself like a butterfly drawn to a lighted candle."

"The feelings I experienced could best be described as cosmic tenderness... It is misleading even to use the words 'I experienced', since during the peak of the experience... there was no duality between myself and what I experienced."

"They take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapour unsurpassed by any vapour-bath one could find in Greece. The Scythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure."

"Those who can grow to be men, who have taken things into account as befits their pride, should seize fourteen hours of it a day, every day. Those fourteen hours are equivalent to eight thousand years in the lives of four hundred generations."

"We are given the chance to learn the truth of Life inherent in each of us, all of truth, perfected, beyond the faculties of our senses. A truth inexpressible in words or by concepts and judgments..."

"Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensons of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you bear to be ravished by <i>évanouissement réveillé</i>."

"These mushrooms are prepared by boiling, by which the water acquires an intoxicating quality, and is a sort of drink which the Tartars prize beyond all other... The mushroom broth goes freely round, and they laugh, talk <i>double-entendres</i>, grow fuddled and become excellent company."

"Everything had suddenly become so totally funny that to single out one thing rather than another would not at all have conveyed this experience of total funniness."

"The afterglow was benign and rich in empathy for everything."

"Every act is a sacrament. Incidents which in the ordinary way would check one or annoy one, become merely material for joyous laughter. It is just as when you drop a tiny lump of sugar into champagne, it bubbles afresh."

"Intense intellectual stimulation, one that inspired the scribbling of some 14 pages of handwritten notes."

"More than tranquil, I was completely at peace, in a beautiful, benign, and placid place.
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"My impression has been that the use of cocaine over a long time can bring about lasting improvement..."

"All reports are in complete agreement that the state of euphoria caused by coca is not followed by any condition of weariness or other form of depression. On the contrary I tend to believe that a part of the effect of coca taken in moderate doses (0.05-0.10 grams) can last for over twenty-four hours. "

"I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images rapidly passed through my mind and were connected with words in such a manner, as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas. I theorized; I imagined I'd made discoveries."

"Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium, on the contrary (if taken in a proper manner), introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation, and harmony. Wine robs a man of his self-possession: opium greatly invigorates it. "

"It is said that every excitation is followed by a commensurate exhaustion. The excitation caused by nitrous oxide is an exception at least, it leaves no exhaustion on the bursting of the bubble."

"In the meantime the morphine had its customary effect- that of enduing all the external world with an intensity of interest. In the quivering of a leaf- in the hue of a blade of grass- in the shape of a trefoil- in the humming of a bee- in the gleaming of a dew-drop- in the breathing of the wind- in the faint odors that came from the forest- there came a whole universe of suggestion- a gay and motley train of rhapsodical and immethodical thought."

"My brain was extraordinarily clear. My self-confidence was boundless. I felt inspired. I saw the way out."

"The depression lifted from my mind like the sun coming out of the clouds.
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"My curiosity is insatiable- every nugget of information I stumble upon becomes a deep rabbit hole of reading and taking in as much information as possible, even the most mundane little things on the internet, the most one-off mentions of anything I scroll by on social media attract immense fascination. "

"I am in a daze under a great violet sun. I want to go on my laptop, read about the world around me, I feel ravenous to take in information and to be filled with all the energy that information carries."

"This is great fun, I feel jovial and in good spirits. There are striped bands of deep blues and hearty reds spinning and streaming faintly across my vision, tracing the surfaces around me. Textures on the walls begin to flow, like water running down a window, glitchy static in pink and turquoise. "

"I shuddered with bliss at the simple facts of my existence. I bathed in that bliss for a moment, and wriggled comfortably as one does in bed on a lazy Sunday morning, feeling like a child. "

"I realized that I could control what I saw. I could talk to people and they would hold still. But if I decided that I wanted them to morph into a dragon, they would do it without question. "

"No visuals, just the feeling of being in a movie and knowing what everyone else is going to say or do before they do it. "

"Before my eyes, the fractals started to morph into all sorts of beautiful and colorful things, I saw Chinese dragons floating all over the place, with a large blue window that shone an intense, but comfortable amount of colour from it; these colours would change every few seconds or so."

"Walking is entertaining now."

"The sun felt so warm and I felt so at peace, so comfortable. Any problems that plagued my normal life felt unimportant. What was important was the now. The light on the blades of grass, the flowers dropping from the tree. I didn't see objects so much as the way they fit into the world around them, there was no chair, there was the line it made contrasting the grass on one side, and the light reflecting its edges."