Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.