The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

Culture is your operating system.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.