This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.