Psychedelics show you what’s in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present. Depending upon set and setting, the same drug, at the same dose, can cause vastly different responses in the same person. One day, very little happens; another day, you soar, full of ecstatic and insightful discoveries; the next, you struggle through a terrifying nightmare. The generic nature of psychedelic, a term wide open to interpretation, suits these effects.
Rick Strassman
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individua... ARVID CARLSSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Ask yourself if you would feel reassured leaving your loved one there. And then visit again. Make a ... ANDREW CROCKER Ask yourself if you would feel reassured leaving your loved one there. And then visit again. Make a ... ANDREW B. CROCKER Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in day out Success is the not the thing we will fi... AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Right now, at this moment, realize that you are living in the present, that you are living in realit... ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware o... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Tangles of life:
Things are busy, moments are time spent, goals are pathways, experience are shadows... C. ANDREW I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH Open your mind to the world and the many different ways that can be found in it, before making hasty... C. JOYBELL C. Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t ... MATT HAIG Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Diversity is one of the pluses of the program. You have an opportunity to share your home and your l... MARIANNE CAVEN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Depending on the dose, it can cause a mild sense of distortion. In the extreme, people are basically... BRYAN ROTH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. And these Things, which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient, they lo... RAINER MARIA RILKE I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could ... SHANNON L. ALDER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—... CARLOS WALLACE Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who... CHRISTINE LAVIN Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Trust In Every Words, And You Will Believe In Your Works. EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery. IDOWU KOYENIKAN I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have... JODI PICOULT A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ... REBECCA HARRIS The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd th... MATT DAMON Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Up until now we have chronically underestimated the very substantial differences in the way individu... DR. GARRET FITZGERALD Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. RICK RIORDAN No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON Why live for the day,
when you know the next one
is going to be exactly the same. HUGO SVENSSON I feel people are like that of original paintings. You can make something like it and to some it may... NICHOLAS GABLE Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE People of the same community don't have the same thoughts, our different thoughts and feelings makes... KOWSALAPATHY You cannot study the same day of a test, and expect to do your very best. CHARMAINE J. FORDE There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you ... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the ... RICK RIORDAN Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I don't live life to be different. I live life to be the same. ANTHONY T.HINCKS All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply co... KILROY J. OLDSTER Still your mind and become a witness to your thoughts through meditation. The more you do this, you ... SANJO JENDAYI I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was weird and unexpected. You have the mind-set of swimming two days, and you usually save energy... JENNIFER NORMAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did tog... JAMES C. DOBSON I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I ha... KEN LIU Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Anxiety disorders, depression can cause the same appearance of the same symptoms (as ADHD), but you ... DONNA PALUMBO Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly ... JAMAICA KINCAID Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh... C. JOYBELL C. Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers. SARU SINGHAL ...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how uni... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body... SAINT AMBROSE One of the most troubling facts I have had to accept is that people are not all angel or all devil. ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route ca... A. R. AMMONS Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN ..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was... BILL PRONZINI An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c... ANUJ SOMANY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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"Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ... RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea... RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu... RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large... RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He sla... RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you? RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g... RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his bac... RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ... RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "W... RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is... RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid. RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Je... RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed! RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio... RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th... RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning bolts t... RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w... RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be... RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?” The satyrs fell over... RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ... RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu... RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ... RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren... RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w... RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain... RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi... RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods." I hesita... RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ... RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez! RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна! - Гррр! - обади... RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб... RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ) RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together. RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger. Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo... RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties... RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” ... RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an ey... RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr... RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul! RICK RIORDAN In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame ... RICK RIORDAN Everything looks better with my eyes closed. RICK SPRINGFIELD