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.
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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.
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
