Ralph Metzner famous quotes

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
-- Ralph Metzner

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The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it
-- Ralph Metzner

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The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
-- Ralph Metzner

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I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.
-- Ralph Metzner

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Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.
-- Ralph Metzner

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I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.
-- Ralph Metzner

#Life Changing #Believe #Events

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.