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I Learned More About Psychology In The Five Hours After Taking These Mushrooms Than In The Preceding 15 Years Of Studying And Doing Research In Psychology.

Ritual Is To The Internal Sciences What Experiment Is To The External Sciences.

We Are Dealing With The Best-educated Generation In History. But They've Got A Brain Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go. Science Is All Metaphor. In The Information Age, You Don't Teach Philosophy As They Did After Feudalism. You Perform It. If Aristotle Were Alive Today He'd Have A Talk Show. If You Don't Like What You Are Doing, You Can Always Pick Up Your Needle And Move To Another Groove. If You Take The Game Of Life Seriously, If You Take Your Nervous System Seriously, If You Take Your Sense Organs Seriously, If You Take The Energy Process Seriously, You Must Turn On, Tune In, And Drop Out.

Throughout Human History, As Our Species Has Faced The Frightening, Terrorizing Fact That We Do Not Know Who We Are, Or Where We Are Going In This Ocean Of Chaos, It Has Been The Authorities - The Political, The Religious, The Educational Authorities - Who Attempted To Comfort Us By Giving Us Order, Rules, Regulations, Informing - Forming In Our Minds - Their View Of Reality. To Think For Yourself You Must Question Authority And Learn How To Put Yourself In A State Of Vulnerable Open-mindedness, Chaotic, Confused Vulnerability To Inform Yourself.

Fundamentalist Christianity Appeals To Pre-civilized, Prudish Tribal People Who Are Not Ready For Urban Feudal Pleasures.