Psychoactive Drugs Quotes

• Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, Moving, People

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• ¿Qué pasa con la autoconciencia, la misteriosa capacidad del cerebro para reflexionar sobre sí mismo? La autoconciencia puede alterarse mediante el lavado de cerebro, las drogas psicoactivas, la estimulación eléctrica, la propaganda política o religiosa, incluso la publicidad. Toda una vida frente al televisor puede equivaler a un autotrasplante.

  Chet Raymo

  Religioso, Personal, Político

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• Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Marijuana, Law, People

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• The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Drug, Half Time

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• Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Attitude, Taken

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• The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

  Stuart Hameroff

  Drug, Body, Awareness

  "Can Science Explain the Soul?" by Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

  William Sims

  Engineering, Drug, Brain

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