Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.