Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.