Consensual Reality

July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 ~ cafebedouin

"The researchers at Yale were looking for a group of people who hear voices at least once a day, and had never before interacted with the mental-health-care system. They wanted to understand, as Burletta put it, those who do not suffer when 'the mind deviates from consensual reality.' ...Every psychiatrist I spoke to shared the … Continue reading Consensual Reality

Entheogen & The Black Iron Prison

July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 ~ cafebedouin

[On reintegrating into their physical body after a transcendental, mystical experience with psychedelics:] "I was back in the prison of all the things that hold me back, but I could see the door was locked from the inside." —quoted in Ferriss, Tim. Tools of Titans. New York: Houghton Mufflin Harcourt, 2017.