Be Here Now - Dass, Ram  ## Metadata - Author: **Dass, Ram** - Full Title: Be Here Now - Category: #books ## Highlights - A cult is a shared system of belief. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkm15sb3yew5dkgw7ewgdmjn)) - If they had it in a very paranoid environment, and they were expecting to have excitement, they tended to have paranoid excitement. All it did was intensify one’s expectations. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkm18pd99a800e0c1r391rsr)) - And finally, a few subjects (maybe 3% or something like that) transcended all form and saw just pure energy—a homogeneous field. It has been called the White Light. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkm1h8p4d9p2h93597dj4r4y)) - At one point I took five people and we locked ourselves in a building for three weeks and we took 400 micrograms of LSD every four hours. That is 2400 micrograms of LSD a day, which sounds fancy, but after your first dose, you build a tolerance; there’s a refractory period. We finally were just drinking out of the bottle, because it didn’t seem to matter anymore. We’d just stay at a plateau. We were very high. What happened in those three weeks in that house, no one would ever believe, including us. And at the end of the three weeks, we walked out of the house and within a few days, we came down! ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkm1ryyjejq7yjggyr41e8gh)) - Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkp9jyn1babj5z4ym8g3yxkp))