And at the end of the three weeks, we walked out of the house and within a few days, we came down!Īnd it was a terribly frustrating experience, as if you came into the kingdom of heaven and you saw how it all was and you felt these new states of awareness, and then you got cast out again. What happened in those three weeks in that house, no one would ever believe, including us. We finally were just drinking out of the bottle, because it didn't seem to matter anymore. That is 2400 micrograms of LSD a day, which sounds fancy, but after your fist dose, you build a tolerance there's a refractory period. Because after six years, I realized that no matter how ingenious my experimental designs were, and how high I got, I came down.Īt one point I took five people and we locked ourselves in a building for three weeks and we took 400 micrograms of LSD every four hours. We saw that it wasn't going to be that simple.Īnd for five years I dealt with the matter of 'coming down.' The coming down matter is what led me to the next chapter of this drama. We had gotten over the feeling that one experience was going to make you enlightened forever. We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself!Ĭosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. I can do nothing for you but work on myself. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW. It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.Įarly in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, 'Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!' it catches you back into the model of 'I'm Sam who empties the garbage.' You can't maintain these new kinds of structures.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. If you could stand back for but a moment you could see that if man were more conscious from moment to moment he could transcend most of the difficulties he now faces: poverty, war, pollution, neurosis, disease. The witness is always in the Here and Now. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible. If you wish to read the book in its entirety, here is a link to amazon Profound spiritual quotes and excerpts from the highly influential book: Be Here Now by the American spiritual teacher Ram Dass.

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