Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

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

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.