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.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.