Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

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.

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

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

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

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.