Culture is your operating system.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.