... amorphous cultural medium.
Which at certain temperatures, will
form a crystal of cultural convention. . .
if you will. And within the geometry of
that crystal certain things make sense,
and certain things are excluded from making
sense. Science is a condensed cultural
point of view, that is a rigid crystal of interlocking
assumptions. Assumptions such as, matter is
primary, mind is tertiary, causality works from the past,
into the future. So forth and so on. What psychedelics do in
terms of their impact in the physical brain of an organism,
of human beings. Is they withdraw cultural programing. They
dissolve cultural assumptions. They lift you out of that reassuring
crystalline matrix of interlocking truths which are lies. And instead they throw you into the presence of the 'Great who Knows', the mystery. The mystery that has been banished from western thought since the rise of Christianity and the suppression of the mystery religions."-Terence Mckenna
