What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.