The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

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.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

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

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.