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

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

For all we know, we know nothing.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?