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.

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

Memory training is great psychedelic training.