What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.