And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.