I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.