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

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose, ” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental.

All would live long but none would be old.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.