The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.