We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

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

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.