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

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

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.