‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

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.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.