What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.