The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

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

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.