Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

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

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.