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

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.