Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it’s very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you’re lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.
What we drug people have, that you don’t, is repeatability.
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
Psychedelic telepathy is you ‘see’ what I mean.
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
When we really understand time travel we may find out it’s as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn’t even your trip. They don’t even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.
I’m not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I’m an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.