I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings. Albert Hofmann More Quotes by Albert Hofmann More Quotes From Albert Hofmann I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. Albert Hofmann our-world spiritual reality Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. Albert Hofmann expansion psychedelic evolution Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! Albert Hofmann drug garden eye This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view. Albert Hofmann real views world LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Albert Hofmann lsd turns tools Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us. Albert Hofmann magnificence animal reality I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition? Albert Hofmann eye dream past LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. Albert Hofmann miracle eye joy Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind. Albert Hofmann helpful substance way I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild. Albert Hofmann practice believe children What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego. Albert Hofmann ego mean reality God only speaks to those who understand the language Albert Hofmann language speak By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations. Albert Hofmann meditation discovery reality When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. Albert Hofmann psychedelic miracle knowledge Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind. Albert Hofmann mankind consciousness I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Albert Hofmann substance tools thinking In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. Albert Hofmann color eye play I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley. Albert Hofmann huxley lsd needs It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. Albert Hofmann contact psychedelic dangerous I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all. Albert Hofmann born
