We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.