Memorable moments captured from transcripts and documents
“The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.”
“Notice that the internet and the computers that it serves are actually made of the materials of the earth. They're largely metals, silicon, glass, copper, gold, silver. These are the products of demonic artifice. These are the things which the alchemists dreamed of they transform space and time they allow us to speak at a distance, they allow us to wander through libraries thousands of miles distant. No fact is too obscure, no person so hidden that you can't reach them.”
“When you follow your bliss and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it and doing what the push is out of your own existence, you follow that and doors will open where there would you would not have thought there were going to be doors and where there wouldn't be a door for anybody else and there's something about the integrity of a life and the world moves in and helps.”
“So then, if you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death, or shall I say death implies life, you can conceive yourself. You can not conceive but feel yourself not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on sufferance on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”
“I remember when I was a boy we had a common saying: talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. Now obviously if I talk all the time I don't hear what anyone else has to say. And so in exactly the same way if I think all the time that is to say if I talk to myself all the time I don't have anything to think about except thoughts and I'm never in relationship with reality. All right now that's the first basic reason for meditation.”
“It's usually and popularly understood that what happens to you, either fortunate or unfortunate, is the result of good or bad deeds in a previous life. Well that's popular superstition. The real meaning of karma, the word in sanskrit means simply doing, and if I say of an event it is your karma it is saying it is your doing.”
“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world you see. So we operate on a very narrow slice based on cultural conventions.”
“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.”
“If you go to Paris, you know more about reality than people who don't. And if you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.”
“Do you see where I'm going with this? So that in fact the modern enthusiasm for shamanism and secondarily or in a connected mode with psychedelics is actually an intuitive feeling back toward this state of non neurotic empathy that characterized archaic time and that is what has specifically been lost by the descent into the historical process.”
“Somehow part of the package of being a living, thinking being is that you get a universe inside of you. You know you get a galaxy sized object inside you that you can access. And there there are the mountains, the rivers, the jungles, the dynastic families, the ruins, the planets, the works of art, the poetry, the sciences, the magics of millions upon millions upon millions of worlds and this is apparently who we each are we're a little bit of eternity sticking into three dimensional space.”
“I don't know what the signature is on these grasses I'm sure Jonathan does. Are there pure DMT sources there? So that makes it very exciting but in terms of its interest it can't come close. I mean from my experience and I think most people who've done it would agree with this is: 5 methoxydmt is an enormous oceanic emotion.”
New and Old Maps Of Hyperspace“All information is everywhere information that is not here is nowhere and that information stands outside of historical time. It's like Plato said: time is the moving image of eternity. Eternity does not have a temporal existence even the kind of temporal existence where you say it always existed it does not have temporal duration of any sort it is eternity. We are not primarily biology, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence a kind of epiphenomenon at the higher levels of organization of biology we are in fact hyperdimensional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter and the matter, the shadow in matter is the body. And at death what happens basically is that the shadow withdraws or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws and metabolism ceases and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that and when I make these declarative statements I'm making them from the point of view of this shamanic tradition which touches all these higher religions.”
Trading With Aliens [Workshop - Part 1]“And I was a rock collector and a butterfly collector and an amateur rocketeer and all these things and when I analyze these pursuits of mine it was the pursuit of a certain flash of iridescence the iridescence that you get when you break open ore bearing rock. Or the iridescence that you get when you capture certain kinds of butterflies in tropical environments or the kind of iridescence that you get when you mix potassium perchlorate and sugar in a hot sauce pan and ignite it in other words, pushing out at the edge of the permissible, at the edge of the probable, looking for a certain something, a scintilla, a spark, a possibility.”
“It's a hyperdimensional membrane, or something on the border between metaphor and reality that is activated in the psychedelic state by these totally apeshit ayahuasqueros to then objectify their power and their ability to melt through the dimensions and make big magic.”
“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
Food of the Gods“We can begin this restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Let us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”
“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyper dimensional and extremely alien.”
“And this is not an anti intellectual attitude. The ordinary simple person is just as bamboozled by thinking. As a university professor, you can think intellectually in a no think way. That's the art. It doesn't mean not to any thoughts at all. It means not to be fooled by thoughts, not to be hypnotized by the forms of speech and images that we have for the world, not to be hypnotized by them into thinking that that is the way the world really is. So if I say this is a fan, it isn't to begin with fan is a noise and this doesn't make the noise fan but just whoosh. But it can be many other things than a fan. It could be a backscratcher, very well, all sorts of things. Don't let words limit the possibilities of life. Actually this fan has an inscription on it written by a Zen master who is a hundred years old and it says: I don't understand, I don't know anything about it.”
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally lay down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”