The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.