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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.