The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

No one knows enough to worry.

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.