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

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.