The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritua….

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviou….

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our m….

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that wa….

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies..

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. ….

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But ….

As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make….

I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and no….

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Ap….

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes..

I do think that if you were to be scrupulous and research into it you would find that certain types of natural psychedelics have, if anything, anti-a….

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spir….

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path..

Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift a….

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe..

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet..

My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basicall….

The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that ….

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us..

Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed ….