Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

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.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.