The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.