…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 denying the…

…that's 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…

…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 reducing the psychedelic experience to a…

…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 to feeling and…

…go into the shaman space with the a priori categories of Kant, with the eidetic reduction of Wittgenstein with the ideas of Merleau Ponty and Whitehead. All the intellectual equipage of our culture must be carried with us into that space to attempt to map…