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"If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization."
"The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity."
"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish."
"Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness."
"How do we fight back? By creating art."
"The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind."
"It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!"
"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."
"What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation."
"Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation."
"Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas"
"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"
"Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?"
"If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately."
"You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair."
"Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored."
"Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on."
"The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth."
"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."
"Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair."