The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.