In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

[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.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.