There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.