In cyberspace things are built out of light.
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we’ve all been hungering for.
It is the people who are ‘far out’ who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
I’m meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn’t mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there’s a limited pool there that we’re all after.
Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what’s happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It’s the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
It doesn’t matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that’s frightening.
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let’s be frank about it, it is enslavement.