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.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

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

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and transformative potential, and represent a very important tool for spiritual development.

In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.