The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind