…an experience of nature as a force that adumbrates complexity. It just simply means it makes it. But it's a word that Husserl used, that I like to use, because adumbrations sound sort of like vibrations. And so I picture adumbrations as sort of…

…we do but when you burst into the DMT space you don't arrive as the tabula Rasa of the newborn infant you arrive with your Husserl and your Pythagoras and all the REST of it fully intact in your hip pocket if you need to use it. Well so long before…

…then at still higher levels of psilocybin ingestion you get the full blown psychedelic ecstasy which even we as moderns with Heidegger and Husserl tucked under our arm we don't know what the hell is going on we are as primitive in the Face of it as…

…firelight writhing in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that to us, with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing, we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have…

…said I was raised Catholic. I spent a huge amount of time desacralizing myself reading Camus and Sartre and Nietzsche and Husserl and Merleau Ponty and positivists, and dabbled in marxism and was a hardcore materialist. But life lived honestly, meaning not…

…my story exactly. I mean I was raised Catholic, escaped through that to Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Merleau Ponty, Husserl, Heidegger, Positivism, phenomenology and then came DMT and I just realized that the entire enterprise of western civilization is…

…the campfires. 50 000 years ago they didn't know what it was, and when we go in there armed with our Heidegger and our Husserl and our Wittgenstein and our Merleau Ponty we don't know what it is either. There has been no progress in 60 000 years in…

…the edge of the firelight wrestling with a mystery so profound, so bizarre, that even as we sit here with Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg and all these clowns under our belts it is still absolutely mysterious, appalling, challenging boundary dissolving…

…order to keep you Marx. So all you have are feelings and so it's very important to empower this dimension, which Husserl or Merleau Ponty or somebody called the felt presence of immediate experience. Everything proceeds from that. Even thought is subsequent…

…The reason the psychedelic experience is so baffling and transformative, even as we sit here with your heads full of Heidegger and Husserl and I don't know, Wilson Phillips and all this stuff, is because in contact with that, we have no more sophistication…

…of understanding. Understanding is not really a collective enterprise. Understanding is an individual enterprise and you know you can read Husserl and you can become a hasid or you can assimilate these group understandings that are forms of wisdom but…

…firelight, writhing in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that, to us with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have…

…vomiting and sinning and undergoing these things, and you are still trying to perform the eidetic reduction, still thinking about Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg you realize that your mental insides are too different to ever stand in their shoes. You…

…And as I said to this day we are not able to come to terms with this no matter how much Derrida or Husserl or Wittgenstein You've imbibed, it still is a very challenging thing to dissolve your ordinary state of consciousness and abandon yourself to the…

…out of that into atheism, into agnosticism and by the time I got to College I was reading jean Paul Sartre and Husserl and these people and pretty much the main had followed my intellectual ontogeny had followed historical phylogeny and I had arrived in…

…activity and ego dissolution. At still higher doses, the revelation of a religious tremendum so bizarre and unnerving that even today we, with Husserl and all the REST of it under our belts, can barely Face it in other words, a mystery which for all of…