Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

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.

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.