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The drug hashish affects the brain centre which controls the speed of the pictures which pass through consciousness, as well as the dimensions of those pictures. Caffeine affects a different centre in a different way. But neither drug affects consciousness itself; it affects the mechanism which conditions a product of consciousness--the ego in its wakeful state.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 137