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

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.