Too Much to Dream Quotes

“Carl Jung, in a letter to the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Watson, remarked that the Latin for “alcohol” is spiritus, which is also the word for “soul,” and that the abuse of alcohol was fueled by a desire to know God, to transcend daily drudgery for a glimpse of a greater reality.”
― Peter Bebergal, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood

“Huxley’s mescaline trip, reported in his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, is probably the most poetically realized of its kind. It underscored an idea that shifted the English schoolteacher’s son’s entire spiritual outlook. This notion was that the brain and the central nervous system, rather than being the seat of awareness and perception, are actually filters that prevent human beings from being overwhelemed by what Huxley calls Mind at Large.”
― Peter Bebergal, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood

“Spiritual truth, like good nuggets of psychedelic music, was at the margins, hidden in used bookstores and record shops.”
― Peter Bebergal, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood