The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

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.

There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.