Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.