"There are not many problems - there is just one problem. The problem is -- it can be defined many ways - but it is basically that we are inappropriate to ourselves. We are ill with ego. We have a narcissism that we cannot put down. 

The thing that I've learned in studying history and living life is that the thing that makes you happy eventually makes you unhappy. Everything flows. Nothing lasts. This is a hard truth to come to grips with, psychedelic or otherwise. Nothing lasts. NOTHING lasts, not even yourself.

...Let's take a Jungian perspective for a moment. Our gods are the images that we collectively empower ourselves to emulate. And if our god is omnipotent, omniscient, never wrong, always right, utterly unforgiving - this is a jerk!  Who needs this?!  We don't need this! Our image of deity is pathological. Our image of deity is the image of the cancerously, untamed ego. Until we do something about this, we don't have the prayer of a snowball in hell.

...The human story is not going to be given the luxury of being a comedy. You know what a comedy is? It's when you've got no choice. This is going to be a tragedy because the cards are on the table...History can only be redeemed by us."    
                                                                                                                               
- Terence McKenna