If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

History is rooted in the future