More Than Allegory

They wanted to find ways to enter the psychedelic realm for long periods of time, with their analytical and recall capacities somewhat preserved, and with some level of control over the themes and directions of the trip.

Trilobite had an amazing team of carefully selected volunteer subjects to undergo the trips. We called them ‘Explorers’

The proven effectiveness of the images of consensus reality in evoking transcendent ideas is non-trivial. It is as though consensus reality were a symbolic language connoting something beyond or behind itself, which may be trying to reach out to us.

After all, being able to watch the moon from the earth, although admittedly not the same as being on the moon, certainly allows for a much broader and truer view of reality than spending a lifetime staring at the ground.

immemorial. Only modern Western science, plagued by its materialist metaphysics, has chosen to dismiss the universe’s symbolic significance.’

So through thought ‘all things were made.’

‘Yes,’ the Other concurred. ‘The inanimate universe is a collection of symbols pointing to imaginings incommensurable with perception; to feelings and ideas beyond your intellectual comprehension. But if you can tune into these symbols using your intuition and imagination, you can read them and unveil their meaning. The world around you is a book w

Our condition is much more tragic: we live in a society dominated by increasingly deprived myths.

Huxley’s psychedelic-inspired description of the brain as a ‘reduction valve’ of otherwise unlimited consciousness—