The psychedelic experience in the West is very valid, but it’s been a stepping stone and a learning curve of our culture, which is still a very young culture in terms of both spirituality and understanding the energetics of what we’re embedded in. We’ve had a few thousand years of what’s become Western culture over time, which has distanced itself from nature and has denied, over the course of many centuries, ever-increasing sorts of denials of spirit.

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It’s like there’s a genetic predisposition or a memetic predisposition to playing roles that are needed within the hive, within the hive mind of our culture, or within the human species. And McKenna is a role waiting to be refilled.

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At the height of the first wave of psychedelia in the 1960s, Ken Kesey promoted the idea of the “Next Step”, which at the time he envisaged as “Beyond Acid”.

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The medicine of Bufo Alvarius toad in modern times is essentially less than a decade old. There are Mesoamerican carvings of toads and anthropologists and academics say that they’re fertility symbols because of the rain.

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Mark McCloud is the Doctor Strange of the art world. Most days he can be found pottering about in his Sanctum Sanctorum, up on the top floor of his old Victorian house in the Mission district of San Francisco, a curio sanctuary deposit of times past.

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With the current cultural surge in interest in 5-MeO-DMT, what language can we give the unfathomable? Does the discourse need to veer from the shamanic/psychotherapeutic descriptions to a mystic terminology?

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