Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

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

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.