Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.