But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

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

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.