And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.