What you call man is time.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

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

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.