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

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.