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
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
Language betrays, in order to mean.
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