I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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.