Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.