Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.