What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.