I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever.

Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty.

Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.

The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.