And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Culture is your operating system.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

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

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.