The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

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.

What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.