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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.

— Albert Hofmann

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Mystical experiences, like those that marked my childhood, are apparently far from rare.

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Reality is inconceivable without an experiencing subject, without an ego.

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There are experiences that most of us are hesitant to speak about, because they do not conform to everyday reality and defy rational explanation.

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As a path to the perception of a deeper, comprehensive reality, in which the experiencing individual is also sheltered, meditation, in its different forms, occupies a prominent place today.

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Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated.

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