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.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.

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.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.