As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

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