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.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.