It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality