Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

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

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.