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

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.