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 word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.
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.
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.
And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
Memory training is great psychedelic training.
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
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.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
