The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

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