“There was no future and no past. The present was eternity.”
Statement about perceptions he experienced in early clinical experiments with LSD. How Do We Know Who We Are? : A Biography of the Self (1997)
“Initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal Now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one.”
Source: Initiation, Human and Solar (1922), p. 13
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