Altered States - Exploring the Concept of Self and Memory
Eddie Jessup: [[Buddhist; [God; [Self; [Mind]
What dignifies the Yogic practices is that the belief system itself is not truly religious. There is no ] ] per se. It is the ], the individual ], that contains immortality and ultimate truth.
Emily Jessup:
What the hell is not religious about that? You've simply replaced God with the Original Self.
Eddie Jessup: [[energy]
Yes, but we've localized it. Now I know where the Self is. It's in our own minds. It's a form of human ]. Our atoms are six billion years old. We've got six billion years of memory in our minds. Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear — it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason Parrish:
You're a whacko!
Eddie Jessup: [[God]
What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? Everybody's looking for their true selves. We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with ], we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life....Well, I think that that true self, that original self, that first self is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate. And I'm going to find the fucker.
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Altered States - Abnormal Architecture and Animal Comparisons
Mason Parrish: [examining an X-ray taken of Eddie shortly after a "tank trip"]
It looks to me like the architecture is slightly abnormal.
Dr. Wissenschaft:
Somewhat? This guy's a fucking gorilla!
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Altered States - The Search for True Self in Modern Life
Eddie Jessup:
Memory is energy! It doesn't disappear - it's still in there. There's a physiological pathway to our earlier consciousnesses. There has to be; and I'm telling you it's in the goddamned limbic system.
Mason Parrish:
You're a wacko!
Eddie Jessup:
What's whacko about it, Mason? I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get? Everybody's looking for their true selves. We're all trying to fulfill ourselves, understand ourselves, get in touch with ourselves, face the reality of ourselves, explore ourselves, expand ourselves. Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life.
Mason Parrish:
You're a wacko.
Eddie Jessup:
Well, I think that that true self, that original self, that first self, is a real, mensurate, quantifiable thing, tangible and incarnate, and I'm going to find the fucker.
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Altered States - Seeking Expert Opinion on X-rays
Mason Parrish:
I want someone to look at those x-rays who can read them.
Eddie Jessup:
I'd rather not have everyone in the Brigham in on this. It's bad enough we've got this nosy X-ray technician.
Mason Parrish:
Are you all right?
Eddie Jessup:
I'm fine, Mason. I tried to indicate this was just a transient thing.
Mason Parrish: [Addressing Arthur]
Transient ischemic attack, that's what it was. He's got his voice back.
Eddie Jessup:
It wasn't an ischemic attack! It wasn't a seizure. You saw the X-rays, Mason. There was clearly something anterior to the larynx that looked like a laryngeal sack. That's strictly simian! I obviously regressed! To some quasi-simian creature.
Mason Parrish:
I'm gonna show these to someone who can read them right, cause you're reading them wrong, that's all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstituted! I'm a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I'm an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I'm a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I'm not going to listen to any more of your Kabbalistic, quantum, friggin dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I'm gonna show these to a radiologist!
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Altered States - Experiencing Overwhelming Sensations and Revelations
Mason Parrish:
He is off the wall.
Arthur Rosenberg: [on the microphone]
Are you okay?
Eddie Jessup: [on the microphone; shivering]
Get this stuff. It's new. It's deafening. The noise is deafening. Can you hear me above this noise? Oh, my God. The most unbelievable thing I've seen. I'm watching the birth agony of a mountain.
Mason Parrish:
Oh, my God.
Arthur Rosenberg: [on the microphone]
Are you okay?
Eddie Jessup: [on the microphone]
I'm fine. Really, I'm fine.
Arthur Rosenberg: [on the microphone]
Do you want me to bring you down now?
Mason Parrish:
What happens now?
Arthur Rosenberg:
He's blacked-out. His blackouts can get pretty freaky. Sometimes they last as long as four hours. When he comes out, he's chipper as a bird but doesn't remember a thing.
Mason Parrish:
Just how dangerous is this stuff he brought back from Mexico?
Arthur Rosenberg:
I didn't say dangerous, I said it was weird. Hangs around too long. And what's really screwy is it heads straight for the brain.
Mason Parrish:
Well, I don't believe this. You guys are shooting up an untested drug that stacks up in the brain, works in the nucleus of the cell, and don't call that dangerous?
Arthur Rosenberg:
For the record, we don't actually shoot up.
Mason Parrish:
Heh, heh, heh.
Arthur Rosenberg:
Eddie drinks a 10...
Mason Parrish:
Well, It's gonna stop right now. You guys are supposed to be scientists, not two kids in the dorm, freaking out on Mexican mushrooms.
Arthur Rosenberg:
Well, why do you think I called you for? Let's see you stop him.
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