A Quote by Gaspar Noe
What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.
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I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.
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The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.
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