You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules