“Havia em mim uma inocência que só posso chamar de pré-natal. Mais fundo, muito mais fundo, em minha soma de carne e espírito, nos espaços ilimitados de meu tempo, suspeitei (vislumbrei? rocei? – o verbo é improvável) a presença duma inocência cósmica, e esta se passava tão longe que nem se pode exprimir. Caso ela fosse atingida, caso talvez eu ousasse, seria uma árvore, a relva, a pedra, a mesa; sem dor e sem medo eu me integraria indescritivelmente no cosmos.”Paulo Mendes Campos
"Nao havia possibilidade de pensar em nada, naquela hora eu apenas ri e ficava maravilhado com o meu estado de consciencia. Eu olhava para a cara da minha amiga e via luzes fortissimas, o rosto dela parecia um templo imenso, e nós afogavamos em risadas e espanto com aquela consciencia."
"Nesta hora tive varios esclarecimentos mentais, senti a pureza da minha mente, o vazio da consciencia, vi que nao ha nem vida nem morte, nem bem nem mal, em toda energia cosmica que existe, a nossa mente e neutra, inocente, pura, vazia, e so reproduz o eco de toda essa energia, so cria a ilusao. A imagens parecia que saltavam de uma dimensao para outra com muita rapidez, era uma exuberancia magnifica que meus olhos prestigiavam e o melhor eram aqueles esclarecimentos filosoficos e espirituais que tive naquele momento."
"Era como uma divina dramatizaçao do meu teatro mental."
"O encontro com a luz..."
"Tornei-me no próprio Universo."
"Nearly as soon as I had taken off my coat, scarf, and hat, I found my self writhing on the carpeted floor as wave after wave of ecstatic joy, love, and human experience washed over me. With eyes open or closed, I saw the tapestries of human experience and emotion unfurl and expand over every element of my consciousness, every ugly and beautiful thing, and every perfect thing in between. All internal resistance had been dissolved, my mind had become a superconductor, a master conduit, to all of existence. If I have ever lived an enlightened moment, this was surely it."
"Forget the fear, free the ego and do what makes sense to you and you won't go wrong."
"I wasn't scared, just fascinated. I found that the leaves would change to anything I wanted them too. I noticed that I could project my imagination into the reality that I perceived, and then it got weird. I wanted to see what life was without natural perception. I meditated and found that people were like 3 dimentional spheres floating in some kind of essence, and that communication was only one of many links that connected them. My existence was focused on only what was in my consciousness at one moment until I chose to change it. It was like tunnel vision, but with cognitions instead of optics."
"Time became strangely elastic and there was a strong sense of the familiar and the eternal. There was a blending together of sight, sound, taste, and touch. I became gradually aware that the middle part of my body was missing, and soon after, my legs and arms and head and shoulders disappeared also. And then, there I was, without a body altogether. At the same time I could look "down inside" the place where "I" had been and I seemed to see there "in the spirit" cathedrals, hallways, tunnels, and corridors, gleaming crystalline worlds, some dark, some light, all deep and mysterious-the vast world of inner space opened before my spirit eyes. Outwardly, it seemed as if the walls of the room were now alive, quivering, trembling, throbbing with energy. I thought I was in a living universe which was just an extension of "myself." Indeed I could not tell where my own self stopped and the walls of the room began."
"Totally aware of every scheme of this machine to keep us hypnotized and sleepwalking into fulfilling selfish desires, I was in a peaceful acceptance of it."
"Seems to be a dream enhancer for me, and it's a great tool for understanding what goes on deep within my subconscious mind."
"Era tudo tão fantástico. Não conseguia falar. Queria que todo o mundo soubesse o que eu via. Simplesmente não existiam palavras que pudesse usar para descrever, nem tempo suficiente para contar."
"Flashes followed by flashes and more and more and more flashes. Each one more enlightening than the previous. I didn't even thought about it. There was no need to analyze anything at all. One look. And you just knew you knew everything about it."
"I didn't want it to be over! Ever! It was like I could follow a thousand thoughts in a minute."
