You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.