The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.