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.

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.