The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.