You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.