“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. This includes both 'internal' changes within one's own consciousness and 'external' changes in the world around us. The key to understanding Magick is to realize that it operates on the principle of the observer effect: by changing our perceptions, we change reality itself.”
“Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (now known as Ram Dass) made a major breakthrough in human understanding when they realized that the process of 'mind expansion' produced by LSD and similar psychedelic drugs can be mapped by means of a model derived from ancient and modern mystical traditions, such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Sufi map of the stages of the soul's journey, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. In other words, they rediscovered the perennial philosophy in a modern scientific context.”
“Every perception is a gamble, in which we compile a complex series of electrochemical events and then interpret them as a unified perception. When LSD or mescaline alters this process, you become aware of how many 'realities' are possible. Beyond LSD there is a land of pure information, where you understand that every reality is a creation of the mind.”
“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, and we don't even know we're making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.”
“We think this is reality. But in philosophy, that’s called naive realism: 'What I perceive is reality.' And philosophers have refuted naive realism every century for the last 2,500 years, starting with Buddha and Plato, and yet most people still act on the basis of naive realism.”
“When you get a little higher you begin to see that the number of realities is unlimited. When you get very high, you begin to see that every perception is an illusion and that the number of illusions is infinite.”
“When the Sufis say that the universe is an illusion, they do not mean it does not exist. They mean that we do not see it as it really is...”
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