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"There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles."
"The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries."
"Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue."
"The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself."
"The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system."
"Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans."
"The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable."
"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."
"And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade."
"Language betrays, in order to mean."
"[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable."
"It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically."
"I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy."
"I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright."
"The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path."
"We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else."
"Time will perfect matter."
"The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature."
"Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin."
"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."