We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

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

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

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.

The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.