The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

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.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.