Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.