The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

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.