Avoiding the Void: The Lack of Self in Psychotherapy and Buddhism
The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1992)
The drugs that people take for non-medicinal reasons do more than numb pain or enhance pleasure or induce perceptual distortions. They are a weapon against the void. In his book on opium, Jean Cocteau wrote that every human activity "takes place in an express train hurtling towards death." To take drugs, he proposed, is to get off that train. The potent illusion that drugs provide is called upon when the more commonplace illusions fail, and especially when life appears as nothing more than the conduit between birth and death. (Luc Sante)
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