When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.