We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.