For Me, What All These Years Of

Our Medium Is Meat, But We Are Made Of Information.

Cultural Conditioning Is Like Bad Software. Over And Over It's Diddled With And Re-written So That It Can Just Run On The Next Attempt. But There Is Cultural Hardware, And It's That Cultural Hardware, Otherwise Known As Authentic Being, That We Are Propelled Toward By The Example Of The Shaman And The Techniques Of The Shaman. ... Shamanism Therefore Is A Call To Authenticity.

Even As The Nineteenth Century Had To Come To Grips With The Notion Of Human Descent From Apes, We Must Now Come To Terms With The Fact That Those Apes Were Stoned Apes.

These Religions That Are So Freighted With Their Own Pomposity Are No Better Than Inspired Guesses.

One Of The Things That's So Striking About Shamanism In The Native Context Is The Absence Of Mental Illness.