{"id":1969,"date":"2009-08-27T00:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2009-08-27T00:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:46:34","slug":"quote-terry-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1969","title":{"rendered":"Quote. Terry Riley. The function of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"mrriley\" rel=\"lightbox[pics1969]\" href=\"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mrriley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1970 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mrriley.jpg\" alt=\"mrriley\" width=\"482\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the function of drugs is to remove certain filters that we have in our brain to make our lives more ordinary. These filters filter out the extra perceptions of angels and all the other things that would make our lives a little bit wild. If we could see everything around us that really exists, we might not be able to take it. That\u2019s why people crack up when they take LSD. The person that takes a drug shouldn\u2019t be dependent on it, but should take it once and see that there\u2019s another reality, and work towards that. You can\u2019t take a drug again and again and improve yourself towards that reality, I feel. Once you\u2019ve done it, once that reality is in your mind, then I think the drug has served his purpose. Our problem with drugs now, in our society is people become dependent on them because this reality is too brutal for them. They can\u2019t accept it, so the drug takes them to another place. But since they are not ready for it physically or spiritually, that another place is too fragile and their physical body can\u2019t take it. There is a balance between all your psychic needs, your spiritual needs and this corporal body that has to be maintained while you are alive. And even though you\u2019ve got this spiritual body inside you, you\u2019ve got to take care of the psychical one too. Great mystics, you know, can\u2019t even eat because they are so much into the spiritual selves. They don\u2019t take care of their needs, and their disciples or their friends have to do it. But if you are a drug addict, you might not have any friends to take care of you. So you end up on the street and you die. A person has to recognize that he has a responsibility as a human being. And if he\u2019s been awakened, then it\u2019s just work. It\u2019s just trying to remember, and to have patience, and to know that, eventually, through many, many births, you will probably arrive at the state that that drug brought you to.\u201d [<em>Taking Music, William Duckworth, 1999<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think the function of drugs is to remove certain filters that we have in our brain to make our lives more ordinary. These filters filter out the extra perceptions of angels and all the other things that would make our lives a little bit wild. If we could see everything around us that really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}