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

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.