Lauren Kate Quotes

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

Thinking is a picturing of all our experiences before birth or before conception. You cannot come to a true understanding of thinking if you are not certain that you have lived before birth.

We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.

All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.

In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.