I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

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

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.