The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
The western mind, because of it’s unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don’t look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don’t. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don’t.
Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that’s made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it’s that people are very easy to love.
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don’t see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It’s beautiful.
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It’s a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.
The history of man that you don’t know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don’t know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.
I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don’t think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium.