I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

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

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.