We reproduce catastrophe because we ourselves are traumatized. Both as a species and individually, beginning at birth. Because we are wounded we have put up psychic defenses against reality. We have become so cut off from participation from the multi-dimensional wilderness in which we are imbedded that all we can do is to navigate our way cautiously through a humanly-designed day-to-day substitute world of symbols, world of dollars, minutes, numbers, images and words that are constantly being manipulated to wring the most possible profit from every conceivable circumstance... the body and the spirit both rebel. -Michael Tsarion

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. -Terence McKenna