There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else’s rules.
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
I’m as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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.