The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

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

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