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I mean everybody knows there'...

I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

Ethelda Bleibtrey

The central point about the p...

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

On these matters of specific ...

On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

Psychedelic experiences are b...

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

The Gaian process is more tha...

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

This rising global humanism i...

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

And so, these are the things,...

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

The psychedelic species of vi...

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

We are living in a very pivot...

We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

I would argue that it's almos...

I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

Ethelda Bleibtrey

My normal lectures deal with ...

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

It was the fall into history ...

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

Standing outside the cultural...

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

The psychedelic experience is...

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

In other words, all these thi...

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

The social consequence of the...

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

Transformation of language th...

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

If the world is made of langu...

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

Clearly, what is happening, I...

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

You could almost describe psy...

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Ethelda Bleibtrey

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