We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

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