The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

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.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

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

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer