This need to alter consciousness, then, is not some frivolous desire to escape, but rather one of the most fundamental of human characteristics—perhaps, in fact, the characteristic that has led to our development of culture and civilization. The point is at once so obvious, so important, and so easily forgotten: To be human is to explore and make use of altered states of consciousness. Probably the most satisfactory and popular way of altering consciousness—a method that humans have developed over literally millions of years of testing and exploring—is to restrict the operation of one or more of their senses, that is, to put themselves into a state of sensory deprivation. — Michael Hutchison
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:45:40 +0000
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