So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.