We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

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.

I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.