This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again.
I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there’s no hope, there’s no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it’s a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
Why does mathematics describe nature? That’s a deeper question than most.
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it’s an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.