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

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Culture is your operating system.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.