I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

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

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.