The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

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

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.