The marijuana plant, a sacrament that’s been used for thousands of years for promoting healing, for promoting transformation, for promoting spirituality, and every day we’re learning a host of new benefits that are associated with the plant.

Marijuana is a cognitive catalyst that can trigger heightened free-associative creativity, increased pattern recognition, and insight.

Marijuana enhances our ability to marvel: In some mysterious and uncannily recurring way, marijuana can induce an almost ‘synesthetic ecstasy,’ whereby a loosening of the usually firm borders that separate our five senses allows for a broader, deeper, more profound, and often time-dilated “interpretation” and “internalization” of moment-to-moment experience.

I think art and science are two sides of the same coin.

Ideas are so big that they deserve to have a sort of artful, aesthetically discerning packaging, right? I think that we need to not underestimate the power of informing our ideas with reverence and with beauty and with good package design.

The Internet literalizes the psychedelic vision that “we are all one”. Because now, we are all synapses in a global brain.

We already give meaning to our lives with virtual reality such as culture, identity, religion, your name, I mean these are not biological truths, these are cultural virtual realities and nonetheless we use them to fill our lives with meaning and purpose supposedly.

He says that the human brain as it exists now is like an artificial intelligence program, it takes in data from the present and compares it with data from the past and uses that to make predictions about the future, we are like an artificial intelligence program making predictions, the brain is a prediction machine.

We need to start doing that, like, journeys without and journeys within, let’s go explore the solar system and let’s create virtual reality engines in combination with new entheogenic molecules and explore the inner solar system, too.

The term psychedelic is usually associated with mind-expending chemicals, consciousness-expanding drugs that grow on the earth. But the root of the word psychedelic actually means “to make manifest the mind”. Now you can see why psychedelic substances bring our visions into being, we call it active hallucinations, but is this not, in many ways, the same thing as our imagination? And is technology not, in many ways, a manifestation of the human mind, embodied imagination, the actualization, the rendering of our hallucinations into existence? You know, the creature that ate the mushrooms and then started doing art on the caves is the same species that hallucinated starships into existence. Technology is literally psychedelic. It literally is outsourced cognition and how we extend the boundaries of the human mind.