When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.

I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.