Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
I think that understanding man’s place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
Even a billion people is too much. There’s no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
That’s the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
History is the siren song of the soul.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it’s done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
It’s as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
One of the things that people don’t do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you’re practicing psychotherapy.
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.