Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we’ve managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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.
A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.
You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it’s very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.