One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.