Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don’t want to know about it.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
It’s a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
Memory training is great psychedelic training.
There’s something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
I can’t think of a society on Earth where people don’t take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that’s what I think it’s important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you’re taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there’s nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it’s called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
People are concrescences of ambiguity.
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn’t for that.
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.