We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.