If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

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.

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!

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.

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.

Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.