What I’ve observed, and I think it’s fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I’ve observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
The content of the dialogue with ‘the Other’ is a content that indicates that man’s horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, ‘the body is the placenta of the soul’
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.
The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it’s good to stick to the natural ones.
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I’ve been telling people recently is that until there’s animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.