I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.