The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.