The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.