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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
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.
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
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.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
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.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.
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.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
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 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
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
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.