The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

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

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.