History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

Culture is your operating system.

Worrying is betting against yourself.