Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

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.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.