We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

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.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.