We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.