Akame Quotes

If we recognize the power of entheogenic substances to open us to the universal truth and full dimension of human experience, and if we accept the role of the shaman as hierophant and psychopomp into this realm, as enacted for example by the Huichol mara'akame, we have to conclude that today in Western society we are deprived of two key resources for complete human growth. Young people, in their hunger for meaning, will still gravitate toward entheogens. The more experienced among us may try to ease their journey, but in the absence of qualified guides not all will benefit from their experience.

I think I started out reading children’s books. I remember, in particular, books like The Once and Future King or the Narnia series or Tolkien. Charlotte’s Web – I remember that so clearly – and I reread that recently. Suddenly, rereading it, I realised that we think that’s a book about a little girl who saves the life of a pig, who then makes friends with a spider. Right? But what I didn’t realise until I reread it, is that the spider, Charlotte, is a writer. She’s the one who saves the pig’s life by writing words in her web. I think that was a theme: many of the books that I loved were about writers and, particularly, little girls who are writers – Harriet the Spy, that kind of thing.