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.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.